ELA Make and Take Centers July 26 and August 1, 2007 Carol Trovall

Welcome  Make a name tag  Sit where you would like

Literacy Centers Build & strengthen literacy skills (independent practice) Area Choice Time

Four Core Centers  Reading  Literary Response  Sounds, Letters, Words (Word Work)  Writing

Reading  Big Book  Buddy Reading  Classroom Library  Listening Station  Read around the Room  Readers’ Theater Station

Literary Response  Create a Cover  Retelling Box  Story Cube  Graphic Organizers  Questioning Stems  Journal Response  Tell a Tape  Write a letter

Literary Response  BME Sheet  Four flap book  Sketch a Scene  Make a Mobile  Step Book  Research

Sounds, Letters and Words AKA Word Work  ABC’s  Write the room  Making Words  Fluency Sticks  Sorting  Classifying  Making sentences

Writing  Interview a friend (biography)  Poem  Letter  Story  Riddle  Song  Draw a picture and label it

Organization  Rotation system: teacher chooses where students go and when

Organization  Self-selection: student chooses where to go and when

Organization  Combination: teacher sets up a framework and students have some flexibility

Management  C onversation: about the centers  H elp: Wave at me  A ctivity: Look at and discuss how you might use the centers at each station  M ovement: Remain at your center until the timer goes off; move to the next  P articipation: Pick up things, Open cans and bags, look through them

Make centers  Handouts  Materials