| Goals in our Literacy Centers:
1. To provide activities that meet the varying abilities of the students.
2. To allow children to work at their own rate of speed.
3. To provide a wide variety of activities for the children to complete.
4. To include both small group activities and individual activities.
5. To give children a chance to make their own choices.
6. To give students the chance to work independently.
7. To encourage children to try new things.
This is a brief description of a few of the many literacy centers that the
children will complete each week...
Meet with the Mrs. Thrasher
Students meet with me in groups of 3- 4 each day to work on letter/sound
recognition and reading.
Language Arts & ABC Games Center
Students use teacher-made or commercially produced language arts
manipulatives to practice letter recognition, phonics and word
recognition.
Letter Sort Center
Predetermined rules guide the letter sort (tall or short, capital or
lower case, etc.)
Computer Center
The students will use Starfall as well as other educational software to
strengthen skills.
Listening Center
Students will look at and listen to various books with tapes.
Electronic Games Center
Students work on skills with electronic games such as V- Smile and Leap
Frog Phonics games in the classroom.
Overhead Center
Students use clear lettered tiles, water based pens, and other materials
to practice stories, letters, names and words on the overhead projector.
Writing Center
Students can choose from a variety of writing materials to practice
writing letters, names or words. They may also work on writing workshop
stories, theme related stories and other writing activities.
Flannel Board Center
Students use flannel board pieces to retell stories, make up stories or
manipulate letters to make names, words, or stories.
Sight Word Sentence Building Center
Students will add the correct sight words in pre-made word/ rebus
sentences.
Chalkboard Center
Students use the chalkboards to practice writing letters, names & words.
Big Book Center
Students choose big books stories to reread.
Reading the Room
Students may choose a pointer and read the walls of the classroom. They
may read the calendar, poems, labels, word wall, alphabet, pocket
charts and any other print that may be in the classroom.
Writing the Room
Students will use paper on a clipboard and copy the print within the
classroom environment.
Magazines/ Newspapers Center
Students may choose various magazines and newspapers to read, cut and
glue onto their own paper.
Dry Erase Boards
Students use dry erase board to practice writing letters, names &
words.
Alphabet Center
Alphabet pocket chart, students fill out a chart with letter, word and
picture.
ABC Table Center
Play Dough: Students use play dough and cookie cutters to make letters,
words and eventually sentences.
Shaving Cream: Students use shaving cream to write letters and words.
Stamping Center
Students stamp pictures of familiar objects and then use the letter
stamps to spell the objects name. They can also practice stamping the
sight words we have studied.
Theme Library Center
As each new theme or new season comes, I will have a bookshelf in the
room that is full of related books. Students are able to choose some of
their favorite stories to read at this center.
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