A teaching tool for classroom teachers: Interactive word walls and word walls activities / Sınıf öğretmenleri için bir öğretim aracı: etkileşimli kelime duvarı ve etkinlikleri

Abstract

Interactive Word Walls, animated with the words classroom walls, is one of the commonly used applications at primary schools. It has been used to enrich vocabulary, increase the level of reading fluency and word recognition, and to improve writing skills as a teaching tool in language arts. In addition, there are studies about how word walls may be used in content area teaching such as mathematics, science education, and social studies. Although studies conducted in foreign literature increase interest about interactive word walls, it can be seen that there is a need for word walls and its teaching in Turkish literature. The aim of current study is to inform about how interactive word walls may be used in different dimensions of teaching, to present some activities at primary school level and to shed light on researchers and teachers with studies about word walls