Getting Ready for Guided Reading

What are the other students doing while you are working with a group

 at the back table?  

Talking? Walking around the room?  Asking to go to the bathroom?

  Asking for drinks of water?  Needing ice packs? Absolutely not! 

Well, at least not this year because we started the year establishing

 expectations and routines for literacy stations.

What are literacy stations?  They are engaging activities to provide 

practice for the students to work on independently while the teacher

 works with a reading group.

Here are the different activities that we are doing this week.  We change 

them out as needed as interest wanes.

Literacy Station #1 Playdough

How can anyone lose interest in Playdough???  Students are given sight word

 cards to practice forming the letters to the words.

Literacy Station #2 Reading Spots

Grab a green carpet and a reading bag and get lost in a book.

Literacy Station #3 Scratch Art

Students layer lighter colors in their reading notebook and then cover
it with their black crayon.  Then, using their pencil, students scratch out
the sight words on the crayon layers.

Literacy Station #4 Other Hand

Have you ever tried to write with your non-dominant hand? It takes a
lot of concentration!  Students have to practice their word wall words using
their “other hand”

Literacy station #5 Letter tiles

Students take handfuls of letter tiles and try to make words.

Literacy Station #6 Meet with teacher

For now, students are meeting with me at our guided reading table.  We are practicing
word sorts, doing reading inventories, and discussing the books that they have chosen.  

Within the next 2 weeks, we will have our children in their flexible reading groups. The
class will have had time to practice working independently and practice problem solving
while I have a reading group at the back table.

I’m sure no one will interrupt to ask for a drink, go to the bathroom, need an icepack,
get a band aid...