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Grade: all
Subject: Reading/Writing
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After using this tool for over 12 years, it has proven success. You'll be amazed what a difference this makes!This is very powerful tool or support system, not only for the student but also it frees the teacher during writing lessons or anytime writing is required. This tool will help students maintain and encourage writing fluency when correcting spelling errors, without the time-consuming use of the dictionary. Students appreciate this freedom to find words they most commonly use and oftentimes, end up learning the spelling, due to the frequent use of this tool.
This posterboard word bank with alphabetical-labeled pockets can be posted and moved to any convenient location in the classroom. It may include other words such as the names of the states, number words, and names of the months--all used to help students correct their own spelling errors in a timely manner.
On a colorful posterboard, glue library colored-pockets, side by side in rows. Each row should be spaced away from each other to allow room for inserted cards to fit without overlapping to the above row. Each pocket should be labeled a letter or letters in alphabetical order. Some letters can be grouped together on a card such as these sets of letters: U,V&W; E&F; I,J&K; or X,Y,Z; because they usually do not include a large size of common words.
Words to Use:
You may start-off using blank cards made from tag board. Each time a student needs to know how to spell a word, they pull the card from the appropriate letter pocket and the teacher quickly and neatly writes it on the card to eventually build a word bank. This minimizes interruptions when the teacher is working with a group of individuals. The rule of thumb is to stand by the teacher and wait until able to state the word, and the teacher quickly records it.
You may also start a word bank using the Doltch word list or any other lists that students most commonly use to begin this bank. It is not recommended to use this for words not used frequently.Additional pockets may include words for the United States, time-words, number words, fraction words, Countries, etc....
If you prefer to begin a printed version as your beginning word list, you may print on strong paper with columns to cut-out.
Continue to add new cards as the word list grows. As students begin to establish their list, the growing list slows down as their needs are met and become a consistent use each year.
Management: Because this is a popular support, I had to limit no more than 3 at a time at the word bank. Students were able to take a card to their desk, but only for the duration of copying the word. They were expected to replace it appropriately, which they did religiously, due to the frustration of some not returning a card when they needed it (peer pressure!).
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