Using Name Walls to Teach Reading and Writing: Dozens of Classroom-Tested Ideas for Using This Motivating Tool to Teach Phonological Awareness, Letter Recognition, Decoding, Spelling, and More - Softcover

Wagstaff, Janiel M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545108349 ISBN 13: 9780545108348

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies), 2009

Synopsis

Veteran teacher Janiel Wagstaff shows how to harness the power of children's names to teach key reading and writing skills. ABC Name Walls jumpstart lessons on letter-sound correspondence, identifying beginning, middle, and ending sounds, and blending and segmenting sounds. The more advanced Chunking Name Wall helps students spell and decode using patterns in classmates' names. Wagstaff offers tips for creating the walls, introducing the names, and systematically teaching the skills children need to become successful readers and writers all in a fun and motivating way.

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About the Author

Janiel Wagstaff is a national literacy consultant and a literacy coach at a K-6 Title I school in Utah. She has more than 25 years of experience in the classroom and is the author of several professional books, including Quick Start to Writing Workshop Success and Teaching Reading and Writing With Word Walls; she has also written a series of books for children that introduce opinion, informative, and narrative writing from the perspective of a second grader ―Stella Writes an Opinion, Stella Tells Her Story, Stella and Class: Information Experts, and Stella: Poet Extraordinaire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545108349
• ISBN 13: 9780545108348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128