Transcript Spice Up Your Literacy Word Stations!

Spice Up Your Literacy Work
Stations!
Mary Aper
1st Grade
Parkside Elementary
Literacy Work Stations
By Debbie Diller
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Making Centers Work
Engaging The Brain!
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“To increase student’s intrinsic
motivation and keep their attention,
teachers should provide choices, make
learning relevant and personal, and
make it engaging (emotional, energetic,
physical).”
From Teaching With The Brain In Mind
By Eric Jensen
Mini Lessons
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Use the first SIX weeks of school to introduce
Work Stations before you even start Guided
Reading.
Model
Role play
Practice
Supervise
Take a day every month to observe, re-teach
“I Can”
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Job Board
Library Work Station
Use stuffed animals
 Make it a cozy place
 Write a book review
 Write a “Making Connections” on a
post-it and put it in a book
 Our Favorite Book graph
 Author study
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Library Work Station
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Library Work Station
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Big Book Work Station
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Use “Job” cards
Post-It notes to look for words you know
Wicki-Sticks to underline Wall Words
Look for letters with a bubble wand
Look for words with flyswatter with section
cut out
Highlighter tape
Cool pointers
Big Book Work Station
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Writing Work Station
Read the room- have seasonal words
 Have a poster of writing ideas
 Write a list, card, survey, book
 Cool Writing tools
 Theme words on rings or cards
 Dry erase boards
 Magazines write about a picture
 Sticker Story
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Writing Work Station
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Reading The Room
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Drama Work Station
Use puppets to re-tell familiar book
 Use props
 Use puppets from basil
 Lots of Reader’s Theater scripts on line
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ABC/Word Study Work
Station
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Salt bottle work hunt
Magnet letters
Rubber stamps
ABC puzzles
Singing ABC songs
Making words
Cookie sheet with magnetic words/letters
Phonics board games
ABC/Word Study
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Magnet Letters & Rubber
Stamps
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Pocket Chart/Poetry
Work Station
Use cool pointers
 Put poem in correct order
 Illustrate poem
 Poetry Notebooks
 Fill in the blanks of a poem
 Highlight rhyming word with highlighter
tape
 Tape record a poem
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Pocket Chart Work
Station
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Pocket Chart Work
Station
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Overhead Work Station
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Put it low to the ground, on wheels
Use dry erase markers (no water)
Photo frame with cornmeal to write
letters/words
Use magnet letters for kids to spell words
Read poems
Re-read a Morning Message- fill in blanks
transparencies
Overhead Work Station
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Other Work Stations
Computer
 Listening
 Puzzles and Games
 Handwriting
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Listening Work Station
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Puzzles and Games
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