In Read to Self the students read from their book bags. Their bags contain "just right books" (those that come home for homework) and interest books. The interest books are books that they have self selected from my classroom library that are not at their reading level. Many students use this opportunity to choose nonfiction books on animals or weather, etc. During this time they read in a quiet spot for about 20 minutes. Sometimes they will look for words in their books like word family words or sight words, but they are just reading independently here.
Work on Writing is the station that allows the students to write for different purposes. They can write lists, label pictures, write friendly letters (including the parts to a friendly letter), write stories on fun theme paper or respond to various writing prompts. In this station there is a set of colored drawers and each drawer has different kinds of paper to take depending on what they want to work on.
Word Work is a station where the students usually start off doing their sorts (Words Their Way). Then they can choose activities in the colored drawers to work on for the remaining time. They can read the room and find specific words (four letter words, words that begin with certain letters, etc), build sight words with magnetic letters, use dry erase boards to write words/sentences, do sentence scrambles, stamp sight words, play word games, rainbow word wall writing, and more. These drawers will change out throughout the year.
Read to Someone is a station that includes big books. In this station the children read to/with buddies and look for and highlight sight words or word family words. They practice choral reading together, building fluency.
Happy Birthday to Madison on Sunday 10/30!!!
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