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I chose these 46 words because they are words that kindergarten-age children may already know or will learn as the school year progresses. I decided to make my word wall based on the ones I had throughout elementary school, which included both our sight and vocabulary words. These words include colors, animals, foods, actions, people, and places children are somewhat accustomed to experiencing around that age. The sight words used in this word wall are from the Dolch Sight Words list for Kindergarten, and the vocabulary words were found on the website Spelling-Words-Well under the Kindergarten section. These words can be taught in interactive, entertaining ways that allow the students to understand the meaning and the contexts they may be used in. I had a list of about 80 picked out and figured that throughout the semester, I would add more of those to this word wall as well. 

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I chose these 46 words because they are words that kindergarten-age children may already know or will learn as the school year progresses. I decided to make my word wall based on the ones I had throughout elementary school, which included both our sight and vocabulary words. These words include colors, animals, foods, actions, people, and places children are somewhat accustomed to experiencing around that age. The sight words used in this word wall are from the Dolch Sight Words list for Kindergarten, and the vocabulary words were found on the website Spelling-Words-Well under the Kindergarten section. These words can be taught in interactive, entertaining ways that allow the students to understand the meaning and the contexts they may be used in. I had a list of about 80 picked out and figured that throughout the semester, I would add more of those to this word wall as well. 

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"The Letter D Song" Music Video by ABCmouse.com

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The 5 ways I plan to use this digital word wall and or my classroom word wall are: 1. I want to use the digital word wall to share what we are learning with parents since they can only be in the classroom sometimes. Students may go home and say today, we added this to the word wall and parents may have no clue what they are talking about, so this will give them a better understanding. It will also get them thinking about what words their students may begin using more since they are going over them in school. 2.  I plan on using the in-classroom word wall as an interactive word wall with my students. When we introduce a new word into a sight word or vocabulary category, I will tell them the word, and we will sound it out. Once we have sounded it out, I will ask them which letter they think the word falls under. After they share their thoughts, I will turn the card around and show them what letter it starts with. We will then sound it out again and do the syllables, phonemes, and graphemes. Once we do that, I will have a student place it on the board with the velcro. 3. I would love to use my word wall to help students form sentences throughout the year. I understand that this may be difficult at the beginning of the year since they are so young, but I believe that with help, they will be able to form smaller sentences by the end of the year. At the beginning of the year, I will have sentences written out for the students, and they will have to decide which word on the wall fits in that sentence. As the year goes on, they will be able to pick out different words that may fit within the new sentences.  4. An activity I would like to use my word wall for is a matching type of game. I will have specific words picked out and images to go with each word chosen. Students will be playing this with their table groups. Students will flip over two cards, and if they have a match, for instance, the word cat and a photo of a cat, they will get a match; if they don't get a match, the next person will go. This helps them combine two and two using their knowledge of visuals and the word itself. It is something fun that can be done with a variety of words.  5. Since students begin to learn about nouns in Kindergarten, I will use this as a tool to help them understand what words are nouns. I will read the word to the students and ask if they think this word is a noun or not. If they answer yes, they will explain why they feel that, and if they answer no, they will again demonstrate why they believe that. At the beginning of the year, I will place them into the categories of person, place, or thing, but as the year goes on, I will have them put them where they think to get them comfortable categorizing it. This can be done in a game-type setting or an instructional-type environment. 

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The 5 ways I plan to use this digital word wall and or my classroom word wall are: 1. I want to use the digital word wall to share what we are learning with parents since they can only be in the classroom sometimes. Students may go home and say today, we added this to the word wall and parents may have no clue what they are talking about, so this will give them a better understanding. It will also get them thinking about what words their students may begin using more since they are going over them in school. 2.  I plan on using the in-classroom word wall as an interactive word wall with my students. When we introduce a new word into a sight word or vocabulary category, I will tell them the word, and we will sound it out. Once we have sounded it out, I will ask them which letter they think the word falls under. After they share their thoughts, I will turn the card around and show them what letter it starts with. We will then sound it out again and do the syllables, phonemes, and graphemes. Once we do that, I will have a student place it on the board with the velcro. 3. I would love to use my word wall to help students form sentences throughout the year. I understand that this may be difficult at the beginning of the year since they are so young, but I believe that with help, they will be able to form smaller sentences by the end of the year. At the beginning of the year, I will have sentences written out for the students, and they will have to decide which word on the wall fits in that sentence. As the year goes on, they will be able to pick out different words that may fit within the new sentences.  4. An activity I would like to use my word wall for is a matching type of game. I will have specific words picked out and images to go with each word chosen. Students will be playing this with their table groups. Students will flip over two cards, and if they have a match, for instance, the word cat and a photo of a cat, they will get a match; if they don't get a match, the next person will go. This helps them combine two and two using their knowledge of visuals and the word itself. It is something fun that can be done with a variety of words.  5. Since students begin to learn about nouns in Kindergarten, I will use this as a tool to help them understand what words are nouns. I will read the word to the students and ask if they think this word is a noun or not. If they answer yes, they will explain why they feel that, and if they answer no, they will again demonstrate why they believe that. At the beginning of the year, I will place them into the categories of person, place, or thing, but as the year goes on, I will have them put them where they think to get them comfortable categorizing it. This can be done in a game-type setting or an instructional-type environment. 