Today, students learned about the final component of our Reading Workshop--literacy station time. This takes place during the last 20-minutes of our 90-minute morning literacy block. It follows our mini-lesson, Read to Self, Sharing Circle, and Partner Reading times. Eventually, students will choose which stations they wish to visit, but this week they are assigned to stations and are practicing each one. We had a very successful start!
Computer station was very popular--students logged onto the blog and then went to Starfall.com, which is listed under the heading, "Fun Links for Kids."
The Puzzles and Games station will include MANY different types of literacy related games and activities--today we started simple. Students could choose from a variety of puzzles related to the alphabet, vowel sounds, rhyming words, etc.
The Word Study station is another station that will include quite a variety of activities. This week, students can practice word family and red words using Wikki Stix and magnetic letters.
This was the first time I'd ever seen someone build a word vertically. Very creative!
I think "look" might be the most popular red word!
Working with magnetic letters is fun too!
Starfall is a great website! Austin really likes playing the games here at home. I like the pumpkin game where you can make the jack o'lantern.
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