What ARE the Other
Kids Doing?
K-2
Meaningful Literacy Centers
Kathy Bumgardner
Literacy Specialist / Consultant
National Consulting Author
Macmillan McGraw Hill
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Kathy Keane
ELA Curriculum Specialist
Catawba County Schools
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Teacher’s Ultimate Goal:
…to empower students
to read silently and
sustain comprehension.
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What are your daily challenges?
• TIME
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ONE of You…
and LOTS of Them !!
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Guided Reading:
It’s time for my small groups…
What ARE my other kids doing???
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Encouraging Independent Learning:
Two Before You Do
Signal that You Are
Unavailable:
Only 3 Reasons for
My own
“Electric Fence”:
Necklace
Interrupting me in my
groups or in a
conference:
B,V,E
Nonverbal
Clues
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How It All Works…
Procedures…Procedures…
Procedures…
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Workboard
w/ Icons
THERE ARE MANY
Management
System
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OPTIONS
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8
Centers:
• Home
•Toys/
Blocks
•Language
Arts
•Computer
Moon Week / Star Week
•Games /
Puzzles
•Math
•Writing
•Reading
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Literacy
Rotation
Charts
Using
Student’s
Pictures…
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#1 Center Cards...
Center cards
are for
student
recordkeeping.
(there are many
ways to do
this…)
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Center Choice...
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Literacy Products:
Student Accountability
The teacher must set the accountability in place with
required literacy work samples from students as they
“work” in the centers…
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Centers Clipboard
This is an example of a sheet with
icons for the centers in which a
student must complete a product.
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How do we grow
GOOD READERS???
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The
The Gradual
Gradual Release
Release of
of
Responsibility
Responsibility
Begins with:
Teacher Modeling
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Independent Application
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THINK OF IT THIS WAY:
• I DO…
• WE DO…
• YOU DO…
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• The next slide is a reading
assignment much like many students
encounter every day in school.
• If you have difficulty reading your
assignment, you work together with
the person sitting next to you to
figure out what the text says.
• If you have already been “tutored”
on this assignment…please do not
help others…not yet anyway. Thanks!
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Fix-Up Strategies….
Good Readers Use Fix-Up Strategies
to figure out words and parts they do
not know or are not sure about….
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Try a popper.
Give it a try... What does this word look like it
should or could be?
What would make sense?
I looked for a ______
in my closet.
Look for words and word
parts inside words:
Fantastic
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