Graffiti Walls or Graffiti Boards are large areas where students can share writing space. It can be prepared beforehand, with a single prompt, or even be set out blank to start. Students can record thoughts, comments, and ideas in the form of pictures, words, or sentences which they can link to other areas of the board with lines. Each student should be provided with a writing tool, (larger is better to see at a distance!).

Graffiti Walls can help teachers:

• Quickly implement a classroom activity to start discussions about a topic, which you can refer to at later points in the lesson/unit

• Provide a way for shy students to engage in the conversation, the process can be made to be a quiet process, so markers only!

• Give students time to process materials and link it to other comments on the wall

• Getting students to work on the Wall at the same time can require a lot of space! You can divide the Wall into sections and join them at the end of the activity

• Different colour markers can indicate different information. For example, students can use Red for questions, Green for vocabulary, and Blue for comments

• Try coming back to the Wall a few times during a lesson or unit so students can keep adding - or revising - their comments!

• Use the Wall as a discussion focus in your class, you can even add to the Wall as a class group by linking comments or answering questions!

• Graffiti Walls are great for processing emotional responses, you can use these as a way to get students to organise their thoughts after a speech, video, or article