Check and chant each word in the sentence in the usual manner. You also can dictate only questions, or exclamatory sentences to work on punctuation during your word wall time. In this game, the teacher thinks of a word wall word and gives five clues to that word. By the time you give the fifth clue, everyone in the class should guess your word and have written it down on their papers. Students write a guess by number 1.
Students write another guess by number two.
Students again write their guesses by number three. Write guess by number five. Check and chant the correct word, and ask for a show of hands as to who had the word by number one, two, three, etc. 7. The teacher says a word wall word and then taps out several letters in that word without saying those letters. When the tapping stops, the teacher calls on a child to finish spelling the word out loud.