Setting Up…. Word Walls

Blogging here for my summer Setting Up series! I am having so much fun collecting ideas and sharing them with you. Today, we are going to chat about classroom word walls. There are many different options for word walls, but the vast majority of primary classrooms use word walls for sight words and high-frequency words. I will show a few ideas for math word walls and even content words. I hope you find some great ideas today!

If anyone is like me, setting up the word wall is MUCH easier than keeping up with the word wall throughout the year. I can help you with the first part and merely give you the motivation to keep up with it during your busy school year. 😉

World Wall Tips

These three pins are little tips for setting up your word wall.

Scholastic
If you have very limited space in your classroom, this is a wonderful idea. Put your word wall on a ring. Your students will use the word wall as they need, and you save wall space.

Creating Readers and Writers
This idea is fun. Her blog post talks about the importance of using different colors on the classroom word wall to help students differentiate the types of words, such as contractions, sight words, names, and more!

Rainbows Within Reach
This blog post has lots of ideas, just like this one! Click through for inspiration on setting up environmental word walls!

Yeehaw Teaching in Texas
I predict a trip to the Dollar Tree to pick up an index cardholder. What a good idea to hold all the word wall words until they are used!

Setting Up The Wall

Here is the fun part! This is what we are all really excited about. The summer set up. The cute and fun taping, decorating, and measuring. Here are several different ways to assemble your classroom word wall.