Word Walls

In the future, I hope to become a 2nd-grade teacher. I have always loved the littles and have found that I like to work with that grade level. Understanding new vocabulary terms is a fundamental skill to increase their reading skills. When word walls are included in the classroom, is a great resource for the students to refer to when they are struggling to find or spell a word. Due to this being a big resource, I believe as the teacher you should place the word wall in a central location in the classroom, that all students can easily see. I also think it is important to teach the students how to properly use the word wall and to introduce new words throughout the entire school year. In the second-grade, word walls are mostly sight words. These words are words they need to understand when they see them at sight. Second-grade words are the fundamental and building words of common reading. 

When you look up second-grade word lists, you will see a combination of many different words. Some of these words will be simple words for adults and some of them are content-related. For example, some of the words that you will see are: however, again, area, school, whole, etc. As you can see, the majority of the words included in a second-grade word wall are frequently used words in the English language. The pictures included are examples of what the second-grade level word wall could look like (all images are found on Pinterest).