{"id":3357,"date":"2015-02-21T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T11:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2016-07-16T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T12:30:14","slug":"turn-classroom-windows-into-word-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/turn-classroom-windows-into-word-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Classroom Windows into Word Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With classroom space limited, consider building up a \u2018Word Wall\u2019 on available windows or glass doors. Window crayons can be purchased cheaply on Amazon. Whenever a new or interesting word crops up in discussion or through reading, add it to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kenradical\">@kenradical<\/a> for providing me with the inspiration for this idea!<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3359 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-21-at-12.16.26-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-21 at 12.16.26\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-21-at-12.16.26-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-21-at-12.16.26.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/>Taking it further<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Consider having separate word walls for different year groups.<\/li>\n<li>The word wall can be used for regular lesson starters.\n<ul>\n<li>With younger classes, invite a different student each lesson to ask for a definition of one of the words added by the older classes.<\/li>\n<li>With older classes, challenge students to construct a sentence using different words from the wall in relation to the topic currently being studied.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wordwall1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-3358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wordwall1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"wordwall1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wordwall1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wordwall1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With classroom space limited, consider building up a \u2018Word Wall\u2019 on available windows or glass doors. Window crayons can be purchased cheaply on Amazon. Whenever a new or interesting word crops up in discussion or through reading, add it to the wall. Thanks to @kenradical for providing me with the inspiration for this idea! Taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471],"tags":[169,264,267,265,266],"class_list":["bg-responsive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}