Reading and writing centers

Learn how to get your reading centers ready for the year! These ideas will help teachers plan and manage literacy centers. Ideas for ELA centers including the listen to reading center (listening center), read with a partner (buddy reading), word work center, and the work on writing center. These activities will help teachers at the beginning of the year establish expectations for literacy centers and rotations to maximize learning.

Looking for a free building and writing sentences activity for your kindergarten class? Look no further! This kindergarten writing freebie is perfect for small groups, writing centers, early finishers, and more! Grab this freebie and add this to your writing lessons! Learn more about how I use this writing resource in my kindergarten classroom!

How to incorporate fast, easy but more importantly FUN silly sentences into your literacy centers

Are you looking for fun and engaging ways to teach sentence structure to your Kindergarten or First Grade students? Sentence building (also known as sentence scramble) worksheets are ideal for little learners who need practice with writing sentences. Read this blog post and grab the freebie. Yep, FREE sentence building worksheets for kinder and 1st grade students. They are perfect for literacy lessons, literacy centers, or writing lessons. There are CVC, CVCe, blends, and digraphs…

Wondering how to get started using guided phonics and decodable readers with young students? This post about the Science of Reading is full of tips and resources to make teaching phonics and reading simple and fun! Click the pin to learn about using phonic centers and decodable readers!

These sight word writing practice sentences are perfect for centers and independent sight word practice. Writing sight words within sentences can be a great way to reinforce high frequency words. Help your students gain more confidence in sight word reading through writing these simple sight word sentences. #sightwordwriting #sightwordsentences #sightwords

I'm sharing ideas and tips for setting up your writing center for your kindergarten, first grade, or even 2nd grade classroom! The tips include how to organize, implementing student choice, and much more! There's even inspiration for decorating your writing center bulletin board. Writing will soon be your students favorite part of the day!