Having a word wall that addresses specific phonics skills that students struggle with can be a huge benefit to them.
However, teachers know better than anybody that we don’t live in an ideal world. In an ideal world, upper elementary students would already have all of their phonics skills down. Keeping the word wall top of mind with students will help ensure that they use it as a tool otherwise it is just wasted wall space.īelow are some of my favorite word wall ideas for upper elementary, focused on building vocabulary and decoding skills in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.
( Find ideas for preparing for the first day / first week of school here.) Instead, we made oru word walls more interactive and added to the word wall regularly as words came up. I never used completed word walls in my classroom, where all the words were already up on the first day of school. The most useful word walls were ones that addressed a specific skill that my students were struggling with. I have tried out a variety of different word walls. Since wall space was limited in my classroom, I wanted to make sure that everything I hung on the walls was useful and would be referenced repeatedly throughout the school year. Ideally, by upper elementary - and especially 4th and 5th grade - word walls should be used to help improve student vocabulary or help them practice other word decoding strategies. While this word wall idea is useful for primary students, upper elementary students don't benefit as much from this type of word wall. By the time students enter 3rd grade, they have most likely had four years of alphabetized word walls designed to help them learn their sight words.
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