

At a Glance
Language
English — USSubject
- English & Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
Grade
6–12Overview
Why Use a Word Wall?
The Word Wall teaching strategy creates a place in the classroom where students display the meanings of important ideas using words and pictures. As students encounter new vocabulary in a text or video, creating a classroom word wall offers one way to help them comprehend and interpret ideas in the text. It is also an effective way for students to keep track of new terms they’ve learned in a unit of study.
Vocabulary terms that you might add to your classroom word wall include bystander, perpetrator, genocide, democracy, tolerance, nationalism, and prejudice.
Procedure
How to Make a Word Wall
Variations on Classroom Word Walls
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