ELA Focus Wall

ELA Focus Wall 

As a second grade teacher, I understand the importance of visuals for primary grades. This board is such a huge resource for my students throughout the day. This is one of my most used and looked at bulletin board in my classroom.  I change this weekly and refer to it daily. This wall uses Journeys curriculum to display ELA information. But it is versatile for other ELA curriculum. I used the same board when I taught 4th Grade and I was piloting Wonders ELA curriculum at the time.

I love to color code everything. I feel that it helps students relate back to the same topics. All the colors may seem like a lot but referencing to it while teaching every day actually helps my students focus better. I reference to each part as I introduce something new, like our spelling and vocabulary words for the week. As we read our story of the week I refer back to this wall when discussing the reading strategy and skill we are focusing on. This is so helpful for my students and helps then better understand each concept. 

I keep this bulletin board up ALL year long.

Here is step by step of how I put this beauty up at the beginning of the school year. 

First I measure, cut, then tac my backdrop paper to the wall. Then I staple it once I get it leveled. Next I staple on my border.

My husband helped this school year because I was 34 weeks pregnant 🤰

Then I measure everything to be evenly displayed. Then tack it. I love tacking things to the wall. It makes for easy removal in case things are uneven. 

Finally, I staple these beautifully color coded words to the wall.

 Here is a closer look at each section.  I switch out these papers, vocab, and spelling words each week for a new theme.

Teacher Finds:I got the colorful sheet protectors  from the Target Dollar Spot. I created and printed the titles, high frequency words, and spelling words using KG fonts. I purchased the reading strategy and skills from Amy Groesbeck TPT store. (In the future I'd like to create my own). I use sticky clips to hold my vocabulary words. I got mine at Lakeshore Learning but you can find some on Amazon. The border and backdrop paper was purchased from Lakeshore Learning as well. The little black pocket chart that holds my spelling words is also from Target Dollar section 😍

I love this wall. I put a lot of love and hard work putting it up. This wall is such an important resource in my classroom for ELA.