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June 16, 2019 · Leave a Comment

How To Use Vocabulary Word Banks

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monthly vocabulary word bank

Monthly Thematic Word Banks

Increasing vocabulary in class writing is something that I struggled with until I created these vocabulary word banks.  At first, I just listed the words on chart paper and tried to draw pictures to illustrate the words.  However, with my limited artistic skills, that didn’t work out too well.  So I turned to technology to help create thematic vocabulary word banks.

Using the computer, I designed these monthly thematic word banks.  I picked vocabulary pertinent to each month, found coordinating clipart, and added the labels.  Now there was not question for my nonreaders what that picture represented!  Each file comes with 4 parts of the word bank on 8.5 by 11 paper for you to print out and piece together to make a large 17×22 poster.  It also includes  a complete poster on 8.5×11 paper for student to keep at their desks, in their writers notebooks, or whatever system you have put in place for word walls/word banks.

So How Do Vocabulary Word Banks Make Better Writers?

These posters are super handy to help children have the confidence to use seasonal vocabulary without having to worry about how to spell the words.  They provide a ready reference for children when working independently or collaboratively.  The large poster is perfect to put into a writing center.  I use magnetic strips and post it on the side of my metal shelf where I put my writing center.  When children are writing independently, they use the chart for reference both in the center and when writing in their journals.  These really help children make interesting word choices in their writing!

Try It Out!

monthly vocabulary word bank

Click the picture to download your free August / September Vocabulary Word Bank!

Click the picture above to download your free August/September Word Bank.  Use the posters in addition to your normal writing routine.  Here’s a great beginning of the year writing freebie that you can add to your bag of writing tricks and use in conjunction with this poster.

Happy writing!!

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About Lesley

Practice Makes Perfect is an Early Childhood/Elementary Education teacher from Southwestern Pennsylvania. After graduating college, she moved to South Florida, where she taught kindergarten in the Palm Beach County School District for 8 years. After having children, she decided (with her husband) that Florida was too far away from the rest of the family, and she moved back to her hometown, where she took a few years off to spend time with her son. She has been teaching in the parochial school system for 20 years now, first at kindergarten, and currently in a first grade classroom. Lesley has also taught 2nd and 3rd grade Spanish and 4th grade social studies. Visit Practice Makes Perfect at her Facebook page, Practice Makes Perfect, to get great teaching ideas and grab a freebie. You can also find Practice Makes Perfect at her blog, Practice Makes Perfect, on Pinterest at www.pinterest.com/lalmypal, and on Teachers Pay Teachers.

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