Thursday, October 29, 2009

Week 10, Day 4: Word Walls


Today's best practice: Create a vocabulary word wall for new or weird terms.


We have a large E.L. population at our school. We have been using many E.L. strategies to help these students to succeed for years.


E.L. strategies are just really good best-practices.


One is the word wall. I realized that the word wall helps ALL STUDENTS.
Exert. Magnitude. Property. Left/Right, Contact. These are not the hard sciency words that our curriculum is filled with. Put up a word wall.


Below is a list of Strategies I was given by a former Colleague, Heather Marsh. Thank you Heather.
Look these over. They are common sense. It’s good to be reminded of good sense. I bet you will say, "I do that in my room"
Matrix of Strategies and Objectives Reading

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Read Aloud
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Shared Reading
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Guided Reading
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Independent Reading
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Choral Reading
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Readers Theater
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Partner Reading
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Literature Study
Writing
· Whole Group Lesson
· Small Group Guided
· Self-Selected Writing
· Conferencing
· Write Aloud
· Shared Writing
· Interactive Writing
· Language Experience
·Writing Workshop • Author's Chair
Word and Language Study
· Word Wall
·Vocabulary Lesson • Vocabulary Review
Oral Language Strategies
· Blow the Roof Off
· Tea Party
· Information Gap
·Mix/Match • Four-in-One
Vocabulary Strategies
· Frayer Model Word Box
· ABC's ofIt All
· "Q" is for duck
·Vocabulary Foldable • Vocabulary Weave
Cooperative Structures
· Expert Groups
· Think-Pair-Share
· Rally Robin


Hope this helps,


Love to Teach and Teach with Passion


Remember...It's not Magic, It's Science


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richardkinney@cusd.com

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