Literacy Centers {free printable}

Last year my district started using McGraw-Hill's reading series.  While the station ideas for each week's main selection are good, sometimes I find myself spending a lot of time explaining the directions.  After reading The Daily 5, I decided to create some generic literacy centers that could be used with any story/selection.  So, drum roll please...I present to you a set of 16 centers that can be set up in your classroom with just a few materials that you probably already have on hand.

I created a few stations for Words, Reading, and Writing.  Here's what is in each category:

Words:

• Making Words

• Making Words Recording Sheet (The title font is called Grilled Cheese.)

•  Spelling Activity

Spelling Activity Cards can be found {here}.

• Dictionary Dig

Reading:

• Poetry (lots of resources {here}, and {here}).

• Partner Reading

• Read & Respond (lots of graphic organizers found {here}, {here}, {here}, and {here}.

• Comic Strip Story

• Listening to Reading (a couple of online story sites {here} and {here}.
  
  
  

•  Read Time for Kids

• Art (My thinking behind this center is to have seasonal art projects or other art projects that compliment the curriculum.)

Writing:

• Top Ten List

• Squiggle Story (Go {here} to see how Squiggle stories can be used in 1st & 5th grades.)

• Making Sentences

There are 10 sets of sentence cards.  Just print on cardstock and cut out.  Put each set in a zipper bag.

• Write a Letter

• Journal Writing

Tons and tons of journal prompts {here}, {here}, and {here}.

• Super Sentences

30 sentence cards in this document

You can find some other great literacy ideas {here}.

What's your favorite literacy center activity?  Make a comment or share a link in your comment.  Go ahead and download these literacy stations {here}.  As always, if you'd like an editable version, just leave me a comment with your email address.