Literacy Centers

        Literacy Centers are an integral part of every day in our class. Not only do the children love them, but it gives me the opportunity to conduct my guided reading lessons as they work on skills either independently, with my awesome Parapro (who visits from Kindergarten at this time each day), or with the parent volunteer for the day. I am so very fortunate to have a parent volunteer each day of the week to help with one of my centers. They help so much with not only the managing of the centers, but in helping the children practice their skills as well! Here are a few photos from the literacy centers we are doing this week. I change most of them out each week to focus on different aspects of the curriculum we are covering at any given time. 

Two of my girls enjoy time reading to each other in the Reading Hut. They read aloud to one another to practice oral reading and fluency. They then complete a reading log answering questions about the books they read.

Mrs. Manning, my parapro, is playing a fun game one of our first grade teachers, Mrs. Smith, found on Pinterest with this group! They roll the dice (actually a Kleenex box with paper taped to each face) and it lands on a sentence that is written incorrectly. The group discusses the changes that need to be made to the sentence to make it correct and write it on their individual sentence logs. 

This photo shows one of my amazing Parent Volunteers reading with one of her groups. I love having them in my room each day, and the kids love it too!