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Setting Up Your Reading Centers - Simply Creative Teaching

Reading fluency centers that will help students grow as fluent readers independently! Perfect for 2nd and 3rd grade students. Great reading center activity for a read to someone station, or just a weekly reading center in an elementary reading classroom.

Learn how I plan and manage effective literacy centers in the K-5th grade classroom! Check out center activity ideas, differentiated instruction plans, and rotation chart. Download a FREE literacy center plan template to help you get started! #DifferentiatedInstruction #UpperElementary #teachingideas

Happy Summer Break, friends! I hope this post finds you well, breathing deeply, and enjoying some time to refresh and relax. Of course, in between all this relaxing, you *might* be considering next year. You may not (kudos to you!) but if you are, I wanted to share how I begin training my 1st grade...

Find out how to create a reading graphic organizers file box to save you time when planning for your reading small groups.

Guided Reading and ELA Centers in 5th Grade! | Teaching in Teal

Learn how to set up your kindergarten small groups for success including how to organize your small group guided reading table, what to include in your student supplies and how to ​ ​organize your small groups and science of reading guided reading activities for the year. Download a free Science of Reading small groups toolkit to help you set your student supplies at your small groups table.

Make center time in your classroom one that is filled with engaged learning and exploration. As students work independently you are ready to work with reading groups or do small group instruction. But getting your centers set up is the beginning. This blog post details your step by step process for setting up a center rotation that your students will love. It includes literacy center and math center ideas as well as tips for organizing centers all year long.

Organization for your math rotations and reading rotations is easy with these mini student rotation charts. Plan the schedule & stations. Use with Daily Five, M.A.T.H Workshop, guided reading, guided math, or math workshop. Edit the rotation charts in Powerpoint. Works great for kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade!

Guided reading groups are one of the most complex areas of planning and instruction. I've narrowed the focus to upper elementary reading.

Math centers make me leap with joy, and so this blog series is a blast to write! Today we are talking about math center schedules. If you missed any of the other posts in the series, you can click below to get caught up. Part 1: Why You Need to Have Math Centers Part 2:

Are you wondering the best strategies for launching reading workshop in your upper elementary classroom?In this post, I share my first days of school lessons & goals for readers workshop aligned with the units of study. Using read alouds, journal prompts, and student discussion- help your 3rd grade, 4th grade, or 5th grade students build their best reading life with these lessons perfect for the beginning of the school year. Grab the free reading minilessons to create a love of reading!

Looking for ways to motivate students to read independently? Reading for beads is a great way to kick up the motivation! This reading incentive with encourage on task reading for your struggling readers. Click to Read more.

No need to stress over organizing your literacy stations! This literacy rotation system is easy to use and will save you tons of time!

Literacy Stations

Check out why I stopped using traditional reading logs in my classroom, and learn how I changed the format of the reading log to make it intentional for comprehension and nightly reading.

Looking for some fresh literacy center ideas? This post shares engaging 4th grade literacy activities for spelling, word work, sight word practice, reading comprehension, writing, and more. #literacycenters #literacycenters4thgrade #grade4literacycenters #readingstations4thgrade #literacycentersfor4thgrade #4thgradeliteracycenters #literacycentersforupperelementary #upperelementaryliteracycenters #literacycentersuppergrades #wordworkupperelementary #uppergradesliteracycenters…

The asking questions reading strategy and QAR strategy are so important in encouraging students to be active readers.

Check out this article on seven literacy center rotations and use the charts to maximize your literacy centers.

Teachers often have questions about what a literacy block should actually look like. How do you structure your time? When do you pull reading groups? How and when do you teach grammar? The list of questions is lengthy, and with good reason. No one really ever told us what to do! Probably because there is […]