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Learning Centers
Students work in cooperative
groups while the teacher takes groups for structured focused
reading and writing activities. Centres provide authentic
reading and writing tasks. Students engage in independent
practice of their emerging literacy skills and strategies.
Reading Learning Centres
- Listening post
- Quiet Reading – box books
at group level
- Sequencing Pictures
- Sequencing Text
- Snap – initial sound
/ letter, blends, middle sounds
- Make a story – retell
stories
- Print walks – write known
words around the room
- Word Search – find high
frequency words in literature
- Letter / Sound dominoes
- Letter categories – classifying
pictures
- Fishing game
- Sequencing – letters, words, sentences – cut
and paste
- Buddy reading
- Bingo
- Reader’s Theatre
- Newspaper scavenger hunt
- Word wall sort
- Make it centre – with
written instructions
- Classifying words
- Story retelling
- Independent reading
- Cloze activities
- Cloze with sentence strips
- Letter collage
- Book Report
- Author profile
- Illustrator profile
- Write a new ending
Writing Learning Centres
- Language experience – recorded
by an adult
- Barrier Game
- Cut out letters – spell
words
- Spelling Journal Activities
- Letter / sound search – from
books, text
- Play dough letters
- Handwriting
- Beat the timer – write
as many words as possible
- Write the captions for a given picture
- Speech bubbles
- Publishing centre
- Write a postcard, recipe, report
- Magnetic Letters
- Independent Writing
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