READ Stations for the week!

I just finished planning out my Reading stations for the week, and wanted to share! This week we will be practicing each station one day at a time. As a class, we will be working through R on Monday, EA on Tuesday, another EA on Wednesday and D on Thursday. Normally, I will be doing stations 3x/week, with the students doing each station daily for 15 minutes. The other two days will include extended independent reading, as well as other projects and activities.

Here is the overview for the week:

On Monday, we will be going over the procedures for R: Respond, Reflect, Revisit.

This station will involve students completing their weekly journal entries to me (a letter in which they tell me about what they are reading, and then a paragraph on their thoughts -- we will be practicing this together on Friday). This week, they will be answering a question about our current read aloud - Home of the Brave. They will answer the question independently, and then share with their groups. We will be practicing this together, and talking about constructive feedback, and how we can respond to each other.

Our EA station is Exploring Amazing Words.  

As a district, we use the Words Their Way system for spelling, and students are put into groups based upon their spelling level. This week, we will be doing an easier list together, again, working on procedures. We will glue our sorts into our notebooks on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, they will complete two activities from a Tic Tac Toe board (freebie on TPT!)

 

D is Duo Work.  

 This station will usually involve students reading a passage. It may be from our read aloud, or something we read together during Social Studies. They will work with the same passage for the week -- allowing them to become very familiar with it, and look into it more closely. However, this week, we will only be doing this station once. Students will be asked to read the passage with a partner, and answer questions -- highlighting the text to help them create in depth responses. Again, this week we will be doing some of this together to work on procedures and expectations.  

And there you have it!! Our plans for the week for Reading stations. We will be incorporating these into our workshop time. Mini lesson, independent reading, then stations. I'll be stealing some time from writing on the three days that we do stations, but I feel it will greatly benefit my students.