FREE Write the Room Pack and More Literacy Activities

When I started by blog two years ago, I detailed a year's worth of  Literacy Work Stations. You can find them all {here}

 Last year I blogged about other things, because I mostly did the same literacy centers over again.

This year I have {hopefully} made life easier for myself by offering Literacy Work Stations that are more 'permanent'. They are still different every round {by theme/season/increased difficulty}, but not in HOW they are done. This will allow for more learning time: less time explaining the activities and more time to work on them!Best of all, they spiral through the year, so students keep coming back to core learning skills as they extend their knowledge!

Then, I planned a year's worth of rounds that have 5 stations each which include these skills:

1)Writing 2)Listening to reading 3) Word work (sight words) 4) Phonics/alphabet 5) Phonemic awareness
The packs are laid out, week by week, for the entire month. They include 5 stations for students to rotate through per week, with all of the components you’ll need for each activity.
Assessment tools are included to help keep learning on track and to keep your students accountable.
Learning is spiraled throughout the month, to help students build on their prior learning. 

Check out the first pack in the series {here}

So here is our first round of Literacy Activities for the year!

I have 15 students, so I have made groups of 3 students and 5 different activities. 

find the rotation chart {here}

Students work at their center for 30 minutes. They do one station per day, then rotate to the next one on the next day.

 find the rotation chart {here}

As soon as they've done all five, I introduce five new activities. Since most stations will be done in the same way {just with different material}, introducing round 2 will be so much easier!  

READ & WRITE THE ROOM

Read & Write the Room is one permanent station. Each round a new set of letters/words/student names will be posted for students to find and copy onto a recording sheet.

In this first round, students are searching for letters of the alphabet.

You can find this FREE alphabet write the room activity {here}, and for more Write the Room activities that will take you through the WHOLE year, click {here} They are also included in my year long literacy centers bundle!

WRITING/HANDWRITING CENTER

Remember this pocket chart that I had used for mail {that was too confusing for my students to use}? Well, I have re-purposed it to my Writing Center area. Each pocket holds a different writing activity and its components. Later on in the year my students will get to choose a writing activity, but for now we are working on these alphabet handwriting books by Michelle Rist {here}

They copy words that begin with the focus letter into their writing books.

LISTENING CENTER

Students listen to a story and fill in a response sheet. I have made a full year's worth of response pages to go with this activity.

ALPHABET CENTER: RAINBOW WRITING

A class favorite! Students take the letter cards and trace over them using different colored markers.

Rainbow writing!

Then they fill in Rainbow Writing work page {which I didn't get a picture of}.

This is part of my year long literacy activity bundle, but you can also get the Rainbow Writing pack seperately{here}

WORD WORK CENTER: NAMES

For our first round of name activities, I have once again put my students' names on my 2 steel doors. Students use magnetic letters to spell their classmates' names! See {here} for a previous posting about this activity.

I am no longer working with small groups as the activities take place. This allows me the freedom to assist groups where necessary and to assess how they are doing.