Out of this World Literacy

Literacy Resources from Jen Bengel

Literacy Centers

Read the posts to discover what I use in literacy centers, how students manage their time, and more.

Valentine’s Day Language Arts Products for the Classroom

As you are prepping for February, take a look at some of our most popular Valentine's Day products. These resources will keep your students engaged and learning with fun language arts activities. Let's take a look at each one individually.

Valentine's Day Leveled Stories

Just released, our newest product is leveled stories made just for Valentine's Day. This resource includes 20 Lexile-leveled stories that support reading comprehension. Students will read Valentine's stories on their own reading level. They will work on vocabulary and reading comprehension by answering multiple-choice and short-answer questions. Assign these digitally or print the stories. They are available in both color and black and white.

Valentine's Day Leveled Stories
Valentine's Day Leveled Stories

Valentine's Day Writing Project

This is a creative writing project that will take you through the steps of writing. It can be done at any time of the year but works especially well around Valentine's Day. Students will write about someone they love. This is a super fun activity for the students and many teachers are claiming it is their favorite thing they have ever purchased from TpT. Graphic organizers and two weeks of lessons are provided to get your students writing and their creative juices flowing.

Valentine's Day Writing Project
Valentine's Day Writing Project

Reader's Theater

Students need time to talk and share with each other and release that excess energy. One of the best ways to do this is with a Valentine's Day themed Reader's Theater. This resource will help your students:

  • Get excited about Valentine's Day.
  • Build reading fluency by performing a reader's theater
  • Gain confidence as readers and in front of an audience
  • Learn to work together
  • Reflect on their new thinking
Valentine's Day Reader's Theater

Valentine's Day Word Work

Older students need practice with words. This resource is perfect for them. They can be used for morning work, small groups, independent practice, homework, time-fillers, and assessment. They are great for substitute teachers. This resource includes 12 practices that you can print to help with many word work activities including:

  • Beginning, Middle, End
  • Making New Words
  • Finding Big Words
  • Valentine Synonyms
  • Valentine Antonyms
  • Purrrr-fect Words
  • Words I Love
  • Descriptive Valentine’s Words One
  • Descriptive Valentine’s Words Two
  • Valentine Word Scramble One
  • Word Scramble Two
  • Valentine Word Scramble Three
Valentine's Day Word Work

Contraction Game

Keep your students engaged with this super fun contraction game. Students will practice working with contractions during this matching game. It can be used during small groups, in literacy centers, or just for fun. There is a challenge option for early finishers too.

Valentine's Contraction Game

To learn more about some of the above resources, visit this blog post 5 Learning Activities for Valentine's Day

How to Use Interventions In Literacy Centers

Are you looking to ensure your literacy centers are a time where ALL students are working on reading skills at their instructional levels?

Check out how you can implement The Reading Intervention Program into your literacy centers!  

STEP ONE:  Pick a reading focus.

I like to set up literacy centers so that I have students focusing on one of the 4 main reading skills, fluency, comprehension, word work, or vocabulary.  You can choose to set up just one center, or 4 centers with an individual focus for each one.

STEP TWO: Set up the Centers.

  1. Use the center direction pages in this Free Download to display the routine for each center.
  2. Print intervention passages on different colored paper so that they are differentiated.  This way you can tell the kids to choose passages on green paper to read (for example) without have the level ranges for everyone to see.
  3. Print any extension activities you would like the students to use at each station.

For example:

Green paper: Level E-G passages

Orange paper: Level H-K passages

Yellow paper: Level L-P passage

STEP THREE: Practice and Model each Center.

Before sending kids to try out the centers on their own, practice, practice, practice.  You can spend a day showing students what is expected of them at each center.  That way, there will be no excuse for the centers to run smoothly!

THAT'S IT!  I hope you and your student enjoy using The Reading Intervention Program and can implement them into your literacy centers!

12 Days of Christmas Giveaways: Day Eleven

Welcome to Day Eleven of my 12 Days of Giveaways!

Check out the calendar and join me on Facebook Live to see my giveaways each day!

TODAY'S GIVEAWAY:  Eleven Reading Task Cards!
These task cards are great because they can be used over and over again with any book.  Students are challenged to think beyond the surface of the text and dig deeper into their own thinking!
FLASH SALE:  Today only (Dec. 15) save 20% on Comprehension Task Cards, Reading Response Cards, and Comprehension Work for Literacy Centers.  Even the bundles will be on sale!
Click the image below to download today's giveaway now.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

 

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