Reading Stations

This week we’ve been getting into the swing of stations and I thought you may like to see just what that looks like in 1-D.  =)

{With all our practice investigating newspapers, we decided to go ahead and make it a station. Last week we hunted for vowels. This week we’ve been on the hunt for capital letters and punctuation.}

{In spelling station, first graders have an opportunity to practice their weekly spelling words. This week we used a technique called “rainbow writing” to learn our words.}

{In listening station students listen to a story then summarize what happened in the beginning, middle and end with pictures and sentences.}

{In computer station we had a few technical difficulties earlier on in the week, so students had to share a computer and practice some real team work. This team worked so well together!}

{In this station students had an opportunity for some independent reading time. They could choose any book from our class library that looked interesting to them, then rated the book after they were finished reading it.}

{PS. Have you seen our classroom library lately? Our class has been doing a wonderful job of keeping our books organized.}

{In writing station this week students wrote a nonfiction story about themselves. We have some rather talented authors in this bunch!}

{And while I was occupied helping people work out stations last week, Harry Garry - our class mascot - sat in for me and students got acquainted with this furry fella. This week Harry moved to the reading station and students read him their favorite books.}