The Wizard Shout-out’s will feature what your students think of their Word from the Wand board and how it is helping them learn. Once in a while, you may also even feature Wizard Shout-out’s instead of the featured wizard of the week. Assign students who will be in charge keeping peace and order as your students start to drop their sentence strips in the goblet. Make the word wall meaningful and significant to them by letting them be a part of its “birth” and “growth.” Then, as new words come up, ask volunteers to be the one to post the words inside the wand bubbles. The most important aspect in creating the word wall is building it with your students. At the end of each week, choose the best sentence, this being the “chosen one” by the goblet, and the one to be featured in the next Wizard of the Week. Remember how the goblet of fire spewed the names of the chosen school of magic students who would compete in the Tri-Wizard Cup? Have your very own goblet of fire in the classroom, too! Everyday, the students will drop a strip of paper containing their name and own sentence with the usage of one of the featured words.
Your 4th grade word wall should have four areas: (1) where the actual words from wands would be posted (on the left side), (2) each word’s definition from the dialog bubbles of owls, mice, or any magical pet (right side across the words), (3) any Harry Potter wizard with a dialog bubble using one of the featured words in a sentence (lower left), and on the lower right, the Featured Wizard of the Week (may be any of your students you choose to be featured) with a dialog bubble of him/her using a word in a sentence, just like the wizard beside him/her. Use pale manila paper as your parchment, and adorn the borders with owls, Mad-eye Moody’s eyes pretending to read books, etc. For instance, if your class consist mostly of Harry Potter fans, call your word wall “Word from the Wand” and design the layout of your board in such a way that the words are in balloons emanating from the tips of wands. Know the profile of your kids and get clues from their interests and hobbies as to how you should term the word list. With the type of kids that we are teaching in this day and age, the choice of words to label your vocabulary list just exudes a limp and flat vibe.
First of all, get rid of the title “Word Wall” for your vocabulary list.
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