Blue Everyday Word Card Wall
I gradually add the words as I introduce them
throughout the year. Scholastic has a set of books that introduce the
words as well in their emergent reader sets. As I introduce a new word,
we read the books together, then I make copies to send home so that they
practice seeing and reading the word in context with their parents. We
spend a whole week on each word, and everyday we write a sentence using
the word. Of course I model model model during writer's workshop and then
independently they go off to kid write. I am constantly walking around
and helping them sound out unfamiliar words. I also provide an alphabet
strip so they have access to the letters if they forget what they look
like. Often times, when we make the sound of the letter together, they
know the letter, they but don't always remember what it looks like. I
pass out the words from the word wall so that everyone has their own
copy. If they use other words from the wall, they may go and get them as
needed. Then they line the words up in front of them, read them back to
me as a sentence, we talk about if the sentence makes sense, and if it
does, then they copy and write. It is a process but they get the hang of
it pretty quickly. Pretty soon, they don't come up for the words that
they are using frequently in their sentences because they remember how to
spell them on their own and I praise them for that and tell them how smart
they are when they can write words without going to the blue board. I
hope these ideas help you to Kid Write with your kids.
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