Reading Centers

Something I love about teaching is that it is a profession where I am always growing.  While in my reading master's program I spent a good deal of time researching best practices for reading centers.  I have modeled our classroom reading block on these practices and am loving this targeted, strategic, focused reading time.  A huge thank you to all you amazing mommas who come in and make this magical time possible.  We love and appreciate you!  In our class we spend an hour on small group reading instruction each day.  Ideally the children rotate to two centers or stations each day.  Sometimes we only get to one because of a special event happening on campus.  We use the acronym LEARN (which I learned from my dear friend and colleague Mrs. Powers) to structure our rotations.  L stands for listen to reading.  E stands for enjoy a book.  A stands for attention to writing.  R stands for read with the teacher.  N stands for notice words.   The children receive targeted small group instruction at the writing, woking with words, and reading with teacher centers.  Again, this would not be possible without our fantastic parent volunteers. <3

Working with words with our talented student teacher Ms. Berry.

Making connections to text with my last year's student teacher Ms. Fekete.

Focusing on long a spelling patterns in my group. 

Our sweet readers reading away!