Center Management Plan This is a scheme for having centers in which students are mixed ability, while you are instructing same ability students in small group. This is a Prescription for Centers, with cards that show students where to go each day. The cards could be kept on the students’ desks or in a “center work folder” so they could look at them to know where to go on that day. If the card was laminated the students could cross out the centers that they have done with a dry-erase marker. I am thinking that students would have the same plan every week of instruction, unless you decide to swap cards between students in the same group during the year. The Center Names would stay the same but the activities within the center might change. The attached cards have the following stations included: 1 - Letters and Sounds, 2 - Reading, 3- Computer, 4 – Making Words, 5- Listening, 6-Writing. The other icon is the teacher icon, which would represent small group instruction at the teacher table. They would do 3 centers per day (when they are not with the teacher), but within the week would get to all of the centers, and some of the centers they would visit twice during the week. The color that the student’s name is written in indicates the reading group that they attend (red BL, blue OL1, turquoise OL2, green AL). Consider putting some connected reading in every center. Additional icons are on a slide at the end, in case you would like other centers. To see who goes where and make sure that centers are not overcrowded, you could have the color-coded student names (color coded by reading group) on pieces of paper and also the names of the centers. You would physically arrange the students’ names of those students who are not with the teacher so that they are mixed ability at the centers, making sure to limit the number of students in each center. As you do this you would build the center prescription card to match where you place the names. This takes quite a bit of time and thought; however, once you have it, you could use this over and over again each week…unless you decided to add another center or substitute one, in which case you would have to rebuild the center cards. If you wish to try this with this scheme I have given you, you could type in the names of the students instead of “Student A”, Student B”, etc. I also included some center labels for the 6 centers that you could use (the pages with the names and large icons). The first 3 pages are the coded pages where I worked this out. These may be helpful to you if you need to add more students. In my plan, no more than three would be at a center at one time. Carolyn Keasal Alabama Reading Initiative Regional Staff

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Eric’s Centers 1234 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Cohen’s Centers 1234 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

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1 Letters/Sounds 2 Reading 3 Computer 4 Making Words 5 Listening 6 Writing

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