Literacy Stations

I run literacy workstations in my classroom starting on the first full week of school.  I use the first week to train the students on what is expected of them in each station.  I change out the materials every three weeks, to allow each student to do the workstation twice before the task changes in that station.  I run an 11 station rotation, with 2 students at each station.  My stations are:  Writing, Games, Browsing Box, ABC, Play-Doh, Computer, Pocket Chart, Work Work, I Pads, Library, and Listening.  I use Poetry as my 12th station if I need one.  The students visit 2 stations a day during my guided reading time.  I expect them to work quietly and cooperatively with their partner.  Here is a look at what our first set of rotations were:

This is my rotation board.  I move the student names down one rotation each day that we do stations.  I am currently using those green papers until I get the students placed into their guided reading groups.  Then I will use something a little nicer looking! If you would like my Literacy Station labels click here!

This is where my materials are housed for this rotation.  The students go get the bucket that corresponds with their station and then they take it to their designated area.

This first set of rotations was based off of activities that go with Chrysanthemum and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

This letter tile activity was my Writing Station for this rotation.  The other cards also had the student's picture beside it, but this student was absent the day we took picture.

 This activity was in the ABC workstation.  The lowercase letter is written on the white spoon and the uppercase letter on the clear spoon.  Their task was to match up all of the spoons.  Pinterest idea!

This was in the Pocket Chart Station.  They had to match up the picture to the name.  I realized after taking this that this is NOT the correct picture and name match-up ;)

This was in Play-Doh station.  I had alphabet cookie cutters in the station and they cut out and matched up the names.

The other stations don't really change the tasks.  Library, browsing box, and computer all stay the same.  I usually have Starfall.com on the computers for them to use.  Listening is the same with the exception that the stories change every three weeks when stations change.  I pick a different app every 3 weeks for the I Pad station. Games this rotation was an animal domino game.  Work work was sorting magnetic letters on an oil drip pan from Wal-Mart that I have Command stripped onto the big shelf in my room.

Thanks for reading!