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TELL THE TIME
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Y4 M8 : AMAZING ANIMALS — vocabulary
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Module 5: EATING RIGHT (Collective Nouns for Food) by Teacher Vidhiya
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Hangman Module 3
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Matching pairs- Year 2, Week 4
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Hangman Year 2, Wk 4
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Year 4 — The Lazy Burgler — Hangman
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Focus 4 Unit 1.4
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Year 4 Module 3 Page 27 — In The Past — Vocabulary
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End the year with FUN!
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year 1 English
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year 1 English Fruit
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Barton level 4.8 Phrases
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Relative clauses with who/that/which
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Y4 M9 : GET ACTIVE! — Our world (page 96-97)
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CEB — Year 4 — Q&A 1st Day
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Year 3 — Unit 4 — June 15th, 2021
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Word Search- Year 2, Wk 4
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Y4 MODULE 1 : Where Are You From? (Contractions)
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Y4 M7 : HELPING OUT — possessive pronouns
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Year 4 • Push OR Pull
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Module 4 «Going To» recap excersise
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English 4
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4/English#Greek
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Seasons of the Year-English
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End of the year — english
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Months of the Year-English
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Unit 4 — Prepositions of place
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Chinese New Year Memory
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Chinese New Year Word Search
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Friendship texts
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Year 2 Week 4 Find the Match
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year 4 contractions
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Lesson 22 — Year 4
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FAMILY MEMBERS — YEAR 4
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Months of the Year (English — Japanese Kanji)
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YEAR 3 — UNIT 4 — WORDSEARCH
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Year 4 • STEAM • Bees
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Communication idioms
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How often do you…?
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Year 4 — Review
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HABITS — YEAR 4
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house objects (year 4)
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Year 4 Daily routine
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Present Progressive verbs w/pronouns
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Problems in meetigs
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Year 3 Review (4/4)
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Comparative/Superlative
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Year 4 Module 3 Page 28 — In The Past
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Simple Past Tense
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Homophones
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Year 1, Week 23
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Mouse Monty in/on/under/next to
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Year 4 • Empujar o Jalar
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Y4 M6 : GETTING AROUND — telling time
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YCT 4 with English
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ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY YEAR 4
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Chinese New Year Main Idea and Details Sort
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( sw-sp)
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TELL THE TIME
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Y4 M8 : AMAZING ANIMALS — vocabulary
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Module 5: EATING RIGHT (Collective Nouns for Food) by Teacher Vidhiya
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Hangman Module 3
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Y4 M9 : GET ACTIVE! — Our world (page 96-97)
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Y4 MODULE 1 : Where Are You From? (Contractions)
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Y4 M7 : HELPING OUT — possessive pronouns
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The Jungle Book — Characters and characteristics
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Y4 M7 : HELPING OUT — revision (page 81)
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Y4 M7 : HELPING OUT — Subject and object pronouns
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Y4 M8 : AMAZING ANIMALS — Dinosaurs — page 84
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Y4 M6 : GETTING AROUND — smart kids (page 60 — 61)
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Where Are You From?
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Charlie`s Birthday Surprise 2
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Y4 M8 : AMAZING ANIMALS — (dinosaurs)
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Y4 M8 : AMAZING ANIMALS — page 87
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Y4 UNIT 5 : EATING RIGHT — Revision (vocabulary)
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Year 4 Module 3 Page 27 — In The Past — Vocabulary
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Y4 TINY AND LEO (PART 1 AND PART 2)
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Y4 M8 : AMAZING ANIMALS — comparative adjective form
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Year 4 Module 3 Page 28 — In The Past
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Y4 M10 : WHAT’S THE MATTER — PAGE 103
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Y4 M6 : GETTING AROUND — telling time
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Y4 EATING RIGHT
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Gardening tools and their uses / Alatan berkebun dan fungsinya.
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ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY YEAR 4
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Module 4 «Going To» recap excersise
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Y4 M8 : AMAZING ANIMALS — Let’s Play (page85)
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Get Smart Plus 4 (Module 9:Get Active!)
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Y4 UNIT 5 : EATING RIGHT — At The Restaurant.
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THE MONSTER’S HOUSE
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HOME SWEET HOME
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Common Nouns and Proper Nouns
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LISA’S FAVOURITE HOBBY
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Adjectives
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Y5 UNIT 5 : FOOD AND HEALTH — EXTRA LISTENING AND SPEAKING (page 96)
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BEST FRIEND
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Y4 (R) Connectors
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Y4 M9 : GET ACTIVE! — Warm-up (page 154-155)
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Charlie’s Birthday Surprise
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Action Verbs
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Y4 M5 : EATING RIGHT — Conjunctions (and/or/but)
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Who Am I?
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Y4 M6 : GETTING AROUND — sing a song (page 59)
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MODULE 5 : EATING RIGHT
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Y4 M7 : HELPING OUT — object pronouns (page71)
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Match the pictures with the street safety rules that you have learnt.
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Y4 MODULE 5 : EATING RIGHT — unit review
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Y4 : UNIT 2 MY WEEK (Favourite Subject)
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Y4 MODULE 1 : Where Are You From? (Adverb of Frequency)
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Simple Past Tense
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Y5 UNIT 4 : LEARNING WORLD — Are you a super language student? page 46
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Y4 UNIT 5 : EATING RIGHT — a/an/some
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Y4 M6 : GETTING AROUND — Different Means of Transportation (page 62)
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Topic 2: My Week (Has vs Have)
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There is / There are
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Year 5 Unit 4: Subjects in School
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Year 5 Unit 4: Label the Subjects
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Prepositions of Movement (Revision)
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Missing Words (The Camel and the Baby)
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Infinitive to (Exercises)
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Class 4A Quiz Activity
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PRESENT PERFECT & Past Simple quiz
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…be going to (Future Tense)
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Mixed Tenses for Year 4
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year test 4
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The Subject & Object Pronouns
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Buildings, People and Things to wear
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Year 3/4 Common Exception Words — Willow and Poplar
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(New) Chinese New Year Quiz
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Transport, Musical Instruments & Furniture
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Own it! 4 Unit 1 Verbs related to clothes and shoes
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Year 4
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Year 4 quiz
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Prepositions P2, 3, 4
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Spring 02.03.2022 Y1 MENU Chinese Food VOCABULARY 1 (pink bomb)
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my game
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Rooftops 4 Unit 5 sentence scramble
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What is this…?
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French month of the year
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Own it! 4 Unit 4 Describing texture, sound, taste
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Y3 Pictionary Homophones Quiz
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Possesive Pronouns
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Money Higher or Lower
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Year 4
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Duplicate J4 Comparative/Superlative Revision
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Year 4 Quiz
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French Year 4
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get the year car or game
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Plurals
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Teeth Year 4 Science
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Statutory Spelling year 3/4
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Year 3/4 spelling
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Days of the week and Months of the Year in Spanish
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year 4 Aut 4 spellings
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Rooftops 4 Unit 4 anagrams
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French colours
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Fronted adverbial starter
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limiting factors
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Y4 Common exception words -quiz
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Formal or informal language?
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L’heure
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Can you label the months of the year in Italian?
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year 4-Week 4
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Y4 Spellings — Set 4
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Spotlight 4.Irregular verbs
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Spellings 19 Y3/4
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Spotlight 4.Irregular verbs
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Oxford discover 4- unit 12
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Year 3/4 music vocab
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Oxford discover 4- Unit 11
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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.  While this word wall idea is useful for primary students, upper elementary students don’t benefit as much from this type of word wall.

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.

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.

I have tried out a variety of different word walls.  Each had their pros and cons. The most useful word walls were ones that addressed a specific skill that my students were struggling with.

I never used completed word walls in my classroom, where all the words were already up on the first day of school.  (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. 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.

Below 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.

Using your weekly vocabulary words to create word walls that practice different skills is easy, it can be used to practice a variety of skills, and it helps 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students remember past vocabulary words.

Don’t sort these words alphabetically, though.  Use these words to review other skills.

Syllable Word Wall

Sort your weekly vocabulary words by number of syllables. Have headings on your wall for 1 syllable words, 2 syllable words, 3 syllable words, etc.

If you are working on the different syllable types, you could sort the words by syllable type instead.  This gets a little more complicated, however, as vocabulary words don’t often fit into categories like this perfectly.

Parts of Speech Word Wall

Sort each of your weekly vocabulary words by parts of speech — noun, verb, adjective, etc.  This is a great way to regularly review these grammar skills.

As the year progresses, you can adapt your parts of speech word wall based on the skills you are teaching.  For example, instead of just having a «Noun» section, you could have a «Concrete Noun» and an «Abstract Noun» section.

If you go with a parts of speech word wall, then make sure you have a section for words that have more than one part of speech.

Synonym Word Wall

Coming up with synonyms for weekly vocabulary words is a part of many teachers’ vocabulary routine.  Why not make this into a word wall that students can refer back to regularly?

Every week, choose a few of your weekly vocabulary words to put on the classroom wall, and list 3-4 synonyms for each of the vocabulary words.  This is most useful for students if the synonyms you put on the wall are words that will help expand their vocabulary, not familiar words.

Shades of Meaning Word Wall

This word wall is a great extension to a lesson on word choice and shades of meaning lesson.

Choose some well known words — words like run, big, and said.  Come up with a list of synonyms for reach of those words, and have students sort them on a continuum based on their shades of meaning.

Using the word big, for example, you could give students a list of the following synonyms for big: massive, colossal, large, giant, enormous, and oversized.

Then, have students put the words in order from the words that mean the «most big» to the words that mean the «least big.»  There is no one right answer, but the discussion generates is invaluable!

Post all these words and their synonyms on a word wall to help students be more precise in their own writing.

Character Trait Word Wall

This is similar to the shades of meaning word wall, but focuses specifically on character traits and would be a great addition to a character trait unit.

I found that my students regularly used boring words like “nice” and “mean” to describe different characters. Having a character traits word wall really helped my students to expand their character trait vocabulary. Read more about how a character trait word wall might help you out in your classroom, and get a free word wall printable here.

Figurative Language Word Wall

This word wall example might be more of a «phrase» wall.  When you introduce figurative language to your students, start a word wall that they can use as reference.  Then, as you come across these different types of figurative language, add to the word wall.

These figurative language posters can help you start off your word wall.  Then, post examples of similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole as you come across it as a class.

Math Vocabulary Word Wall

As you cover different math vocabulary each unit, hang the word up with a simple definition or drawing to explain the concept. (Or, have a student create the drawing and definition!) Then, make sure you have students use the correct academic vocabulary as they discuss certain concepts.

One year I had a group of students that really struggled with the meaning of words like sum, product, difference, quotient, etc.  Having something that they could continually reference really helped them, and it also helped remind me that I should be using that vocabulary regularly as well.

Science/Social Studies Word Wall

As you cover different science and social studies units, hang up different vocabulary words you discuss.

I have found that these types of word walls are most useful if you group words by topic. For example, after a weather unit, group all of your weather related vocabulary words together under a heading labeled “Weather.”

Then, do the same thing for your next unit. Keeping these words up in your classroom all year makes it easy to review different units with your students whenever you have a little extra time.

Phonics Word Wall

In an ideal world, upper elementary students would already have all of their phonics skills down. However, teachers know better than anybody that we don’t live in an ideal world.   Having a word wall that addresses specific phonics skills that students struggle with can be a huge benefit to them.

One year, my district required that all elementary teachers put up a word wall sorting words by every single phonics skill. This was a bit overkill, especially for upper elementary students that didn’t need to be reminded about every letter sound.

However, my 3^rd graders consistently struggled with r-controlled vowels and diphthongs, so I had a small section of the wall devoted to these specific phonics skills.  I had a section for «ar» words, «or» words, «ir» words, etc., with examples of each.    The students found this very helpful as a reference.

If your students struggle with the different long vowel sound spelling patterns, then these posters might be helpful — and you can use them to help you create a long vowel sound word wall as well!

Root Word/Prefix/Suffix Word Wall

Irregularly Spelled Words Word Wall

This is the only word wall on the list that could be used like the typical alphabetic word wall. If your students are constantly misspelling certain words or asking you how to spell words, then you could create a word wall with irregularly spelled words for reference.

This takes up a lot of wall space for something that is not really important in today’s world of spell check and online dictionaries. If your students need a reference like this, a portable word wall might be more useful. Read more about portable word walls here.

Whatever type of word wall you decide to have in your upper elementary classroom, make sure you put some thought into what would actually benefit your students the most!

And once you have a word wall up, you can use this fun, free, no prep word study activity anytime!  

Make copies, find a fiction book, and you’ll be ready for any emergency that comes your way!