Meaningful Literacy Centers

What ARE the Other
Kids Doing?
K-2
Meaningful Literacy Centers
Kathy Bumgardner
Literacy Specialist / Consultant
National Consulting Author
Macmillan McGraw Hill
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Kathy Keane
ELA Curriculum Specialist
Catawba County Schools
kathy_keane@catawba.k12.nc.us
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Teacher’s Ultimate Goal:
…to empower students
to read silently and
sustain comprehension.
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What are your daily challenges?
• TIME
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ONE of You…
and LOTS of Them !!
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Guided Reading:
It’s time for my small groups…
What ARE my other kids doing???
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Encouraging Independent Learning:
Two Before You Do
Signal that You Are
Unavailable:
Only 3 Reasons for
My own
“Electric Fence”:
Necklace
Interrupting me in my
groups or in a
conference:
B,V,E
Nonverbal
Clues
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How It All Works…
Procedures…Procedures…
Procedures…
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Workboard
w/ Icons
THERE ARE MANY
Management
System
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OPTIONS
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8
Centers:
• Home
•Toys/
Blocks
•Language
Arts
•Computer
Moon Week / Star Week
•Games /
Puzzles
•Math
•Writing
•Reading
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Literacy
Rotation
Charts
Using
Student’s
Pictures…
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#1 Center Cards...
Center cards
are for
student
recordkeeping.
(there are many
ways to do
this…)
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Center Choice...
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Literacy Products:
Student Accountability
The teacher must set the accountability in place with
required literacy work samples from students as they
“work” in the centers…
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Centers Clipboard
This is an example of a sheet with
icons for the centers in which a
student must complete a product.
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How do we grow
GOOD READERS???
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The
The Gradual
Gradual Release
Release of
of
Responsibility
Responsibility
Begins with:
Teacher Modeling
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Independent Application
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THINK OF IT THIS WAY:
• I DO…
• WE DO…
• YOU DO…
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• The next slide is a reading
assignment much like many students
encounter every day in school.
• If you have difficulty reading your
assignment, you work together with
the person sitting next to you to
figure out what the text says.
• If you have already been “tutored”
on this assignment…please do not
help others…not yet anyway. Thanks!
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Fix-Up Strategies….
Good Readers Use Fix-Up Strategies
to figure out words and parts they do
not know or are not sure about….
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Try a popper.
Give it a try... What does this word look like it
should or could be?
What would make sense?
I looked for a ______
in my closet.
Look for words and word
parts inside words:
Fantastic
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What would sound right?
I looked for a dr_____ in
my closet.
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Look for similarities.
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Back track and read again.
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Skip it and go on.
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Fix-Up Strategies Cards:Ð
Comprehension Strategies
Chart: Î
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Literacy Centers
Literacy centers give teachers the
opportunity to:
*work with individual students
*teach mini-lessons to small groups of students
*teach guided reading or writing lessons
*reteach concepts for struggling students
*observe
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Literacy Centers
Literacy centers give students the
opportunity to:
*to learn from their peers by talking to
each other about their work
*independently practice what you’ve been
teaching them about reading and writing
*to allow them to experience time
management and responsibility
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Activities to Enhance the
Five Domains:
• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
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Basic Literacy Centers:
• READING / RESPONDING/ LISTENING
• PHONICS/PHONEMIC AWARENESS
ALPHABET-Letters , Words
• VOCABULARY BUILDING-SPELLING
• WRITING
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ABC- LETTER - WORD CENTER
•Magnetic Letters / Letter Stamps / ABC Books / Letter Tiles
•Crayons/Markers / Paper / Pencils / Alphabet Books / ETC
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ABC Sort
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ABC Sort
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ABC Find
Students
use yellow
crayon to
highlight the
letter of
the week.
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Letter/Sound Match
Students
match
objects to
letters.
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Capital/Lowercase Match
Students
match
capital
letters to
lowercase
letters.
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Alphabetical Order
Students first place words in alphabetical
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order, then
record them.
ABC Letter/Sound Match
Students
match
pictures to
letters.
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Vegetable Stew:
Alphabetizing Word Cards
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What Rhymes?
Students match pairs of words, pictures, or
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objects
that rhyme.
What Rhymes?
Students record pairs of rhyming words.
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VocabularySpelling
Making
Words
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Match Words and Pictures
Match Beginning Sounds
Environmental Print Center
Sort by kind / category.
Sort by # of Syllables.
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Stamp Words
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words using letter stamps.
Making Words
Students
begin with a
word and the
“boxed
letters” for
that word.
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Making Words
Students cut apart
the “boxed letters”
and rearrange
them to create as
many new words as
they can find.
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Magnetic Letters
Students create
words using magnetic
letters.
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Word Swatter Game
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Making Words Clothesline
Students clip letters in order to create words.
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Fill-In-The-Blanks
Students fill
in the blanks
to complete
the word.
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Word Families
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words in the same family.
Making Sentences
Students are given a recording sheet and word cards.
They cut apart the words and rearrange them to make
logical sentences. Then they record them.
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Making Sentences
Students place
words in order
to make logical
sentences.
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Read and Write The Room
Students get a
“clipboard” and walk
around the room
copying words.
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Reading Center:
Classroom Library
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Independent/ Buddy Reading
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Things to do During Reading Time
Read around the room.
Read from your book box.
Read a big book.
Read a fairytale or folktale.
Read an ABC book.
Read a book at the Listening Center.
Read books our class has written.
Read from your journal.
Read from your writing folder.
Read at the overhead projector.
Read an information book.
from Guided Reading- Fountas & Pinnell
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Supply Station
for easy
student
access
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Daily Reading Chart
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Read and Write the Room
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Reading Around the Room
Students
use special
pointers
while
reading.
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BIG Books / Class Books
Students
choose from
lots of
different
reading
materials…
big books,
class-made
books, poems,
charts, etc.
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Following Directions:
Scribble Art
Students
read
“directions”
to create a
picture.
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Special Reading “Spots”
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to read and write.
Reading Tent
Flashlight
Reading
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Bath Tub Reading
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Reading Phones /
READING
BUDDIES
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Listening to READING
Students listen to books on tape, then respond to
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the story by recording
their ideas on paper.
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Listening / Recording Studio
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Book Clubs
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Storytelling
&
Retelling
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Retelling Center:
Flannel Board/ Retell Apron
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Storytelling
Students retell
a story using
simple props.
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Pocket
Chart/
Poetry
Reading
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Poetry Center:
Poem of the Week
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Poetry Charts
Pocket
Charts
Book Baskets
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Poetry Center
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Poetry
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“Poem of the Week”
Pocket Charts
Students can match
words to charts,
create sentences,
etc.
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Sentence Frames
Students fill in the blanks to create logical
sentences. They may use word cards or erasable
markers to complete each sentence frame.
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Overhead
Center
for
Reading/
Word/ ABC /
and
Writing
Activities
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Overhead
Students use the overhead projector to write,
read, manipulate plastic letters, fill in the
blanks, do word studies, etc.
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Individual Student Writing /
Responding Office
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Word
Closets
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Prewriting Guides
Students must
copy these exactly.
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Fill in the Blank Booklets
Students may also write and illustrate patterned
booklets to go with units of study.
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Publishing
Students edit their stories, add illustrations,
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and publish them
into book form.
Surveys
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Students poll each
other on given
questions to
conduct a survey.
Interviews
Students poll each
other on specific
questions to learn
more about their
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Writing For Real!
Students should
have an opportunity
to “show what they
know” and write
about small
moments in their
lives and share
them with each
other.
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Reading and Following
Directions
Students read
the question and
add items to the
collage board to
show that they
understood what
they read.
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Discovery Letter/Item Bottles
Students
observe and
explore the
different
materials
(letters / items)
that match their
letter/word
study.
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LITERACY TOOLS
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Fix-Up Strategies
Think Clouds
Author’s Purpose Pie
Fiction Walk
Nonfiction Walk
Someone Wanted But So Then
Something’s Purpose But So Then
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Good Readers….
ASK QUESTIONS
MAKE CONNECTIONS
VISUALIZE
MAKE INFERENCES
NOTICE THE AUTHOR
FIND IMPORTANCE IN TEXT
SUMMARIZE / SYNTHESIZE
USE FIX-UP STRATEGIES
For Comprehension THINK CLOUDS….see
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FICTION:
Summary
Frames
NONFICTION:
Something’s
Purpose
But
So
Then
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FICTION
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Setting
Character
Sequence of Events
Plot
Predictions /
Inferences
• Author’s Purpose
• Connections
NONFICTION
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Intro of Topic
Sequence
Ideas/Details
Key Vocabulary
Draw Conclusions &
Inferences
• Author’s Purpose
• Connections
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Author’s Purpose Pie
Inform
I
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Persuade
Entertain
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Resources
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Guided Reading- Fountas & Pinnell
Guiding Readers and Writers- Fountas & Pinnell
Reading With Meaning- Debbie Miller
What Are The Other Kids Doing-Marriott & Williams
Strategies That Work- Harvey
Treasures Reading Program-Mamillan McGraw Hillwww.mhschool.com
• Other misc. teacher websites…check them out…the internet
is a wonderful resource for teachers sharing with other
teachers…
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