| A strong sight vocabulary
facilitates fluent and meaningful reading. Each
week we add five new words to our word wall. We cheer, chant and clap each one
and then practice printing and outlining them. We review new and previous words on
following days. These high frequency words will appear in several first grade stories and
poems throughout the year. Once a word is placed on the wall, students know they
can find the "real" spelling by checking the wall. That's a must
during writing! We use these words to help us decode similar words. For example
if we know how to spell like, we can spell bike, hike, strike and others. By the end of the school year, there will
be over one hundred word wall words that the children should be able to read and
spell...just like that! |
