Math Word Wallets

One of the things that I found to be very helpful with Math domain specific vocabulary practice are Word Wallets.

It's a little pocket that contains our math vocabulary words, both the new ones (Practice!) and the old ones (Know It!) We keep these in our math folders for practice for homework.

​Basically we cut down a folder, fold flaps down to make our "wallets" and away we go!

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​When we start this activity, we have the conversation about how words have meaning and "wealth"; that's why we keep them in our "wallets." Most of the kids seem to understand how and why these are important.

At the beginning of each chapter, we cut out the new vocab words from our books and discuss them.

In the middle of a chapter and at the end of the chapter we play a review game similar to  the game of Headbands using our word wallet words (try saying that three times fast! :)

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It's an excellent (and FUN) way to review vocabulary.

The kids really "fly" with it!

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