Ever wondered what we do during reading groups and centers?  Here's a peek into our 90 minute reading block each morning.  Each day 2 groups get direct small group reading instruction, here is the "green" group below.  We were reading Peter's Move.  After reading we do some type of comprehension activitiy and the activity normally involves writing.

 You may be wondering what the other 16 children do while 1 group is working in small their small reading group?! Well centers of course.  Some examples of centers are...

Buddy Reading- kids partner up and read out of their reading text book. 

They have 2 options of how they want to buddy read;

 echo read--one person reads and the other echos

chorale read--both students read at the same time

shared read--the students take turns reading each page

 Word work- this is normally some type of word sorting activity where the kids focus on a specific sound in words and sort the pictures and words accordingly.  For example short u word families or sh words and ch words.

Poetry--the kids each have a poetry notebook

The notebook contains a years worth of poems, they get a new poem each week.  The kids are to read the poem with their group, put the sentence of the poem in the correct order in the oetry pocket chart and lastly, illustrate the poem in their notebook. 

Happy Reading!