LEADERS Handbook of Early Literacy Strategies and Activities
Time: 10 minutes
Group Style: Whole group
Grade Level: K-3
Rationale
Students will actively use the word wall to identify words in text. This enables them to recognize high frequency words in context.
Materials
Procedure
- While writing the morning message, be sure to include the targeted high frequency words from the word wall.
- After reading the morning message, a student will come to the morning message and circle the targeted word.
- Then add that word to the word wall. (This step is done on day one.)
- The next day, repeat, but this time the student will find the targeted word in the morning message as well as from the word wall.
Teacher Comments
- Your word wall must be at the children's level.
- Prior learning of the use of the word wall is necessary.
- Several targeted words may be used during one lesson.