Interactive Word Wall
Spelling High Frequency Words in First and Second Grade (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyStage 2: Consolidation / Fluency
Stage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
5-10
Grade Range:
1st 2nd 3rd 4thFood Groups:
Primary: Spelling and Word Study, Vocabulary
Transcript
This is my "Word Wall" for my split first and second grade class, and there's two very important features about this "Word Wall", the first one being that it's interactive. It's low enough down for the students to come right up to, find a word that they want to use for spelling, and pull it off and then they can bring it to their desks to have it right next to their writing. The second important feature is that its color coded, so the first graders know which words they're responsible for, in this case the green words, and the second graders know that they're responsible for the blue 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 Interactive Word Wall: Spelling High Frequency Words in First and 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.
Make the word wall interactive by allowing the students to take the word off the wall and use at their workspace.
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