Let’s focus on setting up and maintaining literacy centers that grow with our kindergartners.
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You can create literacy centers that last all year long. This is how I set up, organized and displayed the work created by my students from our pokey pinning literacy center. The pokey pinning center focuses on using fine motor skills to poke out simple sight word based sentences. I’ll also mention how it lasts…
As a big fan of year-long literacy centers, I don’t really know how to use anything else. {Nor would I want to} Here is how I put together an ABC center, expectations, and the standards. This center, like most of mine, uses hands-on materials and includes student choice. This is a fantastic recipe to make a…
Literacy centers make up the huge portion of my 90 minute reading block. If you’ve read any of my thoughts on kindergarten literacy or kindergarten reading centers then you know that I only use centers with very little maintenance or upkeep. One of the first centers I implemented is the classic library center. I say “classic”…
Has it been short of forever since I shared about our literacy centers? Working smart is what I like to think I’m doing, when I share with you that my philosophy on bringing learning and playing together happens during literacy centers. I like to create centers that offer choice and keep repeating the same standards with different…
Sometimes allure is in a name. When I read books on how to create literacy centers and run guided reading groups my first year of teaching, I liked a lot of what I read. But I wanted to find a “hook” to get my kinders into their activities and get them to read and write!…
Visual discrimination is huge for young developing and emergent readers! One of the literacy centers I first developed was our puzzle center. It does feature puzzles of all varieties: floor, wooden, regular. But it also features alphabet building and word building puzzles. I have enough puzzles that each of the nine weeks, we rotate out…
Create your own Hansel and Gretel retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Hansel and Gretel retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your…
Create your own Red Riding Hood retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Red Riding Hood retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom…
Create your own Goldilocks and The Three Bears retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Goldilocks retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom…
Create your own The Three Billy Goats Gruff retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Three Billy Goats Gruff retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen…
Create your own Cookie’s Week retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Cookie’s Week retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom too. It’s…
Create your own Polar Bear retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the…
Create your own fall retelling activity based on this simple book for kindergarten. This is how I created a Fresh Fall Leaves retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set so you can make it happen in your classroom too. It’s one of…
Literacy centers are a huge portion of our day. They allow me to teach guided reading to small groups of students and keep students learning and on task. Here is how I use a literacy center workboard, routine and transitions to make this portion of our day work smoothly. Literacy centers makes a big impression…
Create your own Peanut Butter and Jelly retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Peanut Butter and Jelly retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in…
Create your own Big Pumpkin retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Big Pumpkin retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom too. It’s…
Create your own Very Quiet Cricket retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Very Quiet Cricket retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom…
I love building in retelling stories into our literacy center time. We have active literacy centers in our classroom like the retell center. This is how I created a ‘There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly’ retell activity to go in our retell center as an option for my kindergarten students. They read, they…
Create your own Cinderella retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Cinderella What Do You Hear retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom…
Create your own Swimmy retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Swimmy retell activity based on the book by Leo Lionni to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. It’s one of my favorite literacy centers. In fact, it’s a natural extension of what we do in…
Create your own The Doorbell Rang retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a The Doorbell Rang retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your classroom…
Create your own The Three Little Pigs retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Three Little Pigs retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your…
Create your own The Very Hungry Caterpillar retelling activity with this free download for kindergarten. This is how I created a Very Hungry Caterpillar retell activity to go in our retell center as a storytelling option for my kindergarten students. Let me show you what’s in our set and give you the materials to make it happen in your…
Active kindergarten activities are essential to my literacy center time. Students stay on-task better at our hands-on literacy centers in our classroom like the retell center. This is how I created a Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See retell activity to go in our retell center as an option for students. It’s one…