Long Vowel Word Wall

One of my goals for this semester (not an official goal, just my own personal goal) is for my kid and I to create a word wall every month. He can keep track of words we are working on plus it is a good transition task from academic to fun. However, when I started thinking about a word wall, I got so bored. Usual word walls are just a poster board with the word written across it. I decided that I'll do themes for each month: October Halloween, November Thanksgiving, and December Christmas. (I'm lucky because my kiddo's family is a-okay with celebrating the holidays in therapy.)

Since I'm focusing on the long vowel a spelling pattern, I'll have a ghost "head" for each pattern. This week at least we are focusing on -ay, -ea-, and -ai-. My kid will write the words onto white slips of paper, sort them by pattern, and attach them to the ghost heads using glue:

Here is an easy ghost head that I found on google images

Our goal is to make each ghost a body. With each white piece of paper, the ghosts will get longer and longer. He can cut each slip so that the ghosts take shape. This also means he'll have to manipulate the words smaller and smaller so that they will fit onto the ghost.

I'll connect all the ghosts together using coat hangers so that we can hang them around the therapy room as visual cues. This will also make comparing them easier.

At the end of the month we can do some comparisons:

• Which spelling pattern ghost is the longest?
• Which ghost is the shortest?
• Predict which long a spelling pattern has the most words (probably the longest ghost)
• Count the # of words that we have found that fit into the spelling pattern

The word wall after the first day, these ghosts are going to be huge!