Learning Centers
Students independently work in Managed Independent Learning Literacy Centers during Guided Reading group time.
Each of our Centers are different, reading based activities that students work on independently while I am working with small reading groups.
Students participate in our Daily Five activities:
- Reading to Self
- Reading to Someone
- Listening to Reading
- Working on Writing
- Spelling/Word Work
Students plan their time with these goals in mind:
- What are my goals in reading and writing?
- What will I do first?
- Whom with I work with?
- What will I accomplish?
- What was I working on yesterday that I want to continue today?
Literacy Centers provide students with the collaboration and practice necessary to orchestrate their ever-expanding knowledge of literacy.
This time of the day is designed to increase letter/sound knowledge, listening skills, oral language expression, rhyme, letter formation, word study, reading a
Students absolutely love Centers because they have choices and they are in control of their own learning. While students are "engaged in center time" they are growing as a reader and writing, fluency, and cooperation.
"Three Rules for Literary Success:
1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more."
Robert Silverberg
Some of the Centers that we do in first grade are listed below with a short explanation
"What can I do here?" is a famous questions students ask when they visit a Literacy Corner [center]. To avoid the proplem of students not knowing what they can do, or to avoid the problem of off task behavior, create "I Can..." posters for each Literacy Corner area.
Before starting Guided Reading Groups we plan what is available in the Daily 5 using a Learning Log. At the end of the day, the students write what they did in their Learning Log.
Many ideas come from Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snap Shots
Daily Five activities in Center Time
- Reading to Self- Reading Corner
- Reading to Someone - Reading Corner
- Listening to Reading - Listening Corner
- Working on Writing - Writing Corner
- Spelling/Word Work - ABC Corner, Pocket Chart, Words Corner, Computers
Reading
Corner (Reading to Self)
| Computer | Read |
Leap Pads | ||
Class Library | ||
Browsing Boxes | ||
| Read Around the Room | |
| ABC Charts | |
Match | ||
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1 | 1 |
Many ideas come from Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snap Shots
Literacy Corner (Spelling/Word Work) | Sort | Read | Sequence |
1 | |||
1 | |||
1 | 1 | ||
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Match | Play a Game | Build or Make | |
SouSound Munchernd Mun1 |
Many ideas come from Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snap Shots
Ideas from Mrs. Taylors Centers
Listening Corner (Listening to Reading) | Build or Make | Read | Play a Game |
1 | |||
1 | 1 | ||
1 | 1 | 1 |
Pocket Chart
(Spelling/Word Work) | Sort | Read | Sequence |
Numbers | |||
Words | |||
Days of the Week | |||
Category Sort | Poem of the Weekeweek1 | ||
1 | 1 | ||
Match | Play a Game | Build or Make | |
Words & Pictures | |||
Sentences & Pictures | 1 | ||
1 | 1 | ||
1 | 1 | ||
Student Names/Pictures |
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Many ideas come from Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snap Shots
Writing
Corner (Working on Writing) | Write | |
Story | ||
Postcard | ||
Recipe | Book | |
Journal Writing | Story board Retelling | |
List | Card or Invitation | |
Many ideas come from Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snap Shots
Words Corner (Spelling/Word Work) | Build or Make | Play a Game |
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Match | Write | Poetry | |
| highlight words | ||
wikki sticks |
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Morning Message |
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Cut up sentence | 1 | 1 | |
* Rhymes in a bag1 | 1 | 1 | |
Sound Boxes |
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*Send home a paper bag with this poem attached:
I don't mean to brag,
But I have something in my bag
And if you listen to this clue,
I'll bet you can guess it, too!
It rhymes with _______________.
Many ideas come from Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snap Shots
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Computer Corner | Build or Make | Play a Game |
| Pounce: Words that match their Sounds | ||
| ABC Cow : Find the Missing Letter (keyboard practice) | GameGoo : Beginning Sounds | |
| Game Goo: Matching Letters | Game Goo: Word Order | |
| Game Goo: Beginning and End Sounds | Game Goo: Beg, Middle, End Sounds | |
| Gawain's Word: connecting onset and rime | Talking Gizmo: Make and listen to your own sentences | |
| Look, Cover and Check: spell popcorn words | Family Word Sort: sort the families and print | |
Click below to print abcteach center signs. FCRR Learning Center Resources
abcteach computer center objectives.
abcteach listening center objectives.
abcteach writing center objectives.
Spelling Center task card.
TRC Literacy Task Cards
GCS Task Card Record Keeping Form
