Word Wall
Learning To Spell High Frequency Words in Second Grade (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 2: Consolidation / FluencyAges:
7-8
Grade Range:
2ndFood Groups:
Primary: Spelling & Word Study, Vocabulary
Transcript
This is my class word wall. Its an alphabetic word wall. Every week I introduce five to seven words to the students and we work with these words quite intensely everyday throughout the week. We learn all of the different tips and tricks that good spellers use to spell words correctly; things like looking for the small word and the big word, counting the number of letters in the word, and for the kinesthetic learners, we clap the words by saying happy, H-A-P-P-Y, as were sitting at our desks or walking around the classroom. At the end of the week, we do have a spelling test that we use to sort of graduate the words so that they take their place on the word wall. I'm very, very strict about the children from that point on, for the rest of the school year, spelling the words correctly in all of their writing. And if you notice, I have used words generated by frequently misspelled words for any particular grade. I also look at the children's writing and see what kind of words they're having difficulty with. I also put in content-related words, for example, math words.
Related References
Graded lists of high frequency words have been developed by Fry and Dolch: http://www.k12reader.com/fry-word-list-1000-high-frequency-words/
Activity Objective
The goal of Word Wall: Learning To Spell High Frequency Words in Second Grade (Virtual Tour) is to help students to commit irregularly spelled high frequency words to memory and provide opportunities for exposure to and use of a variety of words.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- High frequency words are the words that appear most often in printed material. Direct students' attention to these words during read-alouds and shared readings. - Discuss the importance of recognizing high frequency words by sight and the direct impact of this recognition to reading fluency. - The more often students are exposed to high frequency words the more likely they will be able to commit the spelling of these words to memory. - Create personal dictionaries and have students add new high frequency words to their dictionaries on a regular basis.
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