Kinder Carnival: Word Walls

No classroom should be without a word wall. Students should be interacting with the word wall on a daily basis. Word walls can have many purposes.

According to http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/pd/instr/strats/wordwall/ Word walls have many benefits. They teach children to recognize and spell high frequency words, see patterns and relationship in words build phonemic awareness skills, and apply phonics rules. Word walls also provide reference support for children during reading and writing activities. Children learn to be independent as they use the word walls in daily activities.
Word walls can also be used:

To support the teaching of important general principals about words and how they work.
To foster reading and writing.
To promote independence on the part of young students as they work with words in writing and reading.
To provide a visual map to help children remember connections between words and the characteristics that will help them form categories.
To develop a growing core of words that become part of a reading and writing vocabulary.
To provide reference for children during their reading and writing.