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centers for reading
By jem

You can teach many reading and prereading skills in centers. Program any kind of game, manipulative, pattern, or cut-out with sight words, word family words etc... For example.. If you are using Fall as a theme or topic...
program leaves or pumpkins with sight words. They can match text with them, or use letter manipulatives to spell the words. They can just write them in a Word Bank. Any games you have that reinforce a particular skill can be made to reinforce sight words or word family words. Also read and write the room, stamp a word, pictionary, Word Bingo can be played as a center. (I hope you are using

some of this time to work in small group reading groups.) Magnet boards and magnet letters, wipe off marker boards or chalk boards.. Letter Writing Center, Phonics activity center, flash card race games..or other games using cards, folder games center. For word families, I make lots of flip chart games or the ones where you pull the letter strip through to change the first letter,(or middle or last letter.) I have made games (depending on my theme) where, for instance, the children "go fish" and pull out a word card or pick an apple word card from a tree. We do alot of teacher- made books (but you can buy reproducible ones) where they read and color or write and draw. I hope these ideas are helpful.