Centers and Independent Work – Part Eight

Reading Centers – Part Two

Fantastic Facts is just one idea of a word work center.  Other word work centers might include:

·                     ·        Independent Reading/Read to Self – Students read quietly on their own using a book of their choice.  Students could write a response to a prompt or question stem in a reading journal.

·                     ·        Buddy Read – Students read together or take turns reading a page at a time.  Students could take turns asking and answering questions about the text.

·                     ·        Read and Respond – Students will select a book from the classroom library/reading center.  Students will select a quiet place to read independently.  Students will complete a graphic organizer once they have finished reading.

·                     ·        Comic Strip Story – Students will select and read a fiction book of their choice.  While reading they will visualize what is happening in the story as they read it.  They will then select the six most important parts of the story.  Using the six parts/events they will create a comic strip.  Students will create speech bubbles to show what each character is thinking or saying during each section.

·                     ·        Compare and Contrast – Teacher will preselect books that have a related theme, topic or main idea.  Students will read both books.  Students will then complete a Venn Diagram based on the two stories that they just read.

·                     ·        Read the Room – Students may be instructed to search for sight words, contractions, quotation marks, punctuation, compound words, etc.  Students can wear special “Reading Glasses” and use pointers as they walk around the room.

·                     ·        Poetry Mix – Up – Teacher will write a previously taught poem on sentence strips.  Teacher will place them out of order in a pocket chart.  Students will place the poem back in order and then practice reading it with pointers.  Students may then locate sight words and tally how many times they locate a specific site word.