Do your kids ask you "how do I spell (insert word)? I absolutely think it's important for us to teach our kids to use available resources. They need to learn to use the word wall, books, environmental print and the words that are available to them throughout the classroom. Of course, I teach them to write the sounds that they hear but another resource in my classroom is their traveling word wall words. One of the things that I've used with my kids starting in Kinder is a personal word wall. These are the words that are IMPORTANT to that specific child. It may be their video game name, the place they visited during a vacation, or a favorite t.v. show. These are the things that they want to write about. After they have recorded the correct way to spell their important word in their traveling word wall they ALWAYS have it to refer back to AND they can be helpful to others that are interested in that word. Click here ...