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Combined 2/3 and word wall lists?

by Denise

Sep 14, 2008

I'm teaching a 2/3 split this year & am looking for a list of Word Wall Words to use with my class. In the past I've used both Month By Month Phonics for Grades 2 & 3 (individually) but, am looking for creative ideas as to how others have produced a 'combined' list....

Jessica I have always had a combo class (even a 2-3-4), and have generally not been able to do the www effectively! I hope you figure out a way. I ended up grouping kids into two groups and then giving them 5 words a week. They would practice with a www partner, but only with the partner, not as a whole class activity with me leading. The kids had to take ...See More

Sep 14, 2008

mrsmoosie04 On 9/14/08, Jessica wrote: > I have always had a combo class (even a 2-3-4), and have > generally not been able to do the www effectively! I hope > you figure out a way. I ended up grouping kids into two > groups and then giving them 5 words a week. They would > practice with a www partner, but only with the partner, not > as a wh...See MoreOn 9/14/08, Jessica wrote: > I have always had a combo class (even a 2-3-4), and have > generally not been able to do the www effectively! I hope > you figure out a way. I ended up grouping kids into two > groups and then giving them 5 words a week. They would > practice with a www partner, but only with the partner, not > as a whole class activity with me leading. The kids had to > take charge of their own learning. They also had individual > word walls that they kept in their writing folders and had > to refer to those regularly. I just used a regular manila > folder and would write in the 5 words for the week. Later, > they could do it. > > I used the big classroom word wall differently, as I posted > many words at once, and we used it like a giant > dictionary... when doing writing conferences, if the word > was on the wall, they had to correct it. It was basically > the first 150 high frequency words, or what you might say > were the first grade words and K popcorn words they should > know already... those are the words everyone was ALWAYS > responsible for!! After that, they had to refer to their > folders for their words. > > It just always seemed that the 5 words were too hard or too > easy otherwise. I always have a wide range in a class. For > example I might have gifted third graders AND learning > disabled second graders. With that huge of a range, it just > didn't make sense to have one wall!

*Thanks for the response Jessica. I appreciate the insight. Today when chosing the 5 new WWW I refered to both Gr.2&3 lists (4 Blocks). Then I did the 'pretest', introduced the correct spelling, & used my students' 'Writers' Journals' to gleam other words they misspelled in their writing...If the WWW were spelled correct on their 'pretest' I exempted those from individual lists and added words from their own 'writing'...Some kids had 10-15 words (max 10 for Gr.2's & max 15 for Gr.3s)while others had as few as 7 OR 8. I'm going to assign 'Word Work Buddies' for 'Friday Check-Ups' who will 'test' each other. I must admit that it was a lot of work to set up today...next time, I plan to have the new WWW list pre-photo copied. Then, I will cross off the words they 'ace' in the pretest and add only the words from their own writing.

> > > On 9/14/08, Denise wrote: >> I'm teaching a 2/3 split this year & am looking for a list >> of Word Wall Words to use with my class. In the past I've >> used both Month By Month Phonics for Grades 2 & 3 >> (individually) but, am looking for creative ideas as to >> how others have produced a 'combined' list.... >

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