The Walls of Your Classroom are Valuable Real Estate
Reading Wall-Set up a strategy wall. Post skills and strategies your students can use to process texts. Post the strategy when you are teaching it. Refer to the strategy wall during read alouds, shared, and guided reading. Ask students which strategies they used during independent reading.
- Comprehension Strategies-Retell, summarize, ask questions, etc.
- Author's Craft-Noticing author techniques
- Accuracy-Reading words correctly
- Fluency-Expression, phrasing, and rate
- Extending Vocabulary-using context, breaking words apart, etc.
Writing Wall-Student need to use the writing process as they compose texts. Post the process and add anchor charts and worked examples for each type of writing.
- Prewriting
- Drafting
- Revising
- Editing
- Publishing
- Responses
Grammar & Mechanics Help Wall
- Commonly Misspelled Words, Homophones
- Grammar Rules
- Examples of Ways Grammar Rules are Used Correctly
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