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stations
By Sandy

I used Station Rotation (centers) during reading. I broke my students up into small groups based on ability. While I worked with each group for 20 min. the other groups worked at Stations. They each had a folder that they
carried with them from station to station. On Friday I would hand out a sheet of everything they had worked on at Station Rotation. They would pull the papers out of their folders, put them in order and staple them with the cover sheet to turn in. I used a rubric and gave them 100% if everything was turned in and complete, 70% if 1-2 things were missing or incomplete or a 50% if more

than 2 things were missing or incomplete. VERY VERy rarely did they get less than a 100%. I didn't check each problem for accuracy but rather checked a few on each page to make sure they were getting the concept. Each station was used as a review for something we had already learned whole group. I didn't want more than 5 students per group. Three stations always stayed the same. We always did mountain language, we always wrote a friendly letter to someone (we have a mail system in our school for the students to write to each other and teachers) and we always had a teacher meet. The other 2 stations varied with what we were doing in class. It could be organizing 10 very important sentences and illustrating them about the story you are reading, or an adjective search through magazines and make a class collage. It could be a worksheet or using dictionaries to look up vocab words. the possibilities are endless. I used a little kitchen timer and would set it for 20 min. when it rang, the students cleaned up their station and moved on to the next one. We did station rotation on T-W-Th. On Mondays we did Writer's Workshop and on Fridays we had Writing and or went to the computer to type up stories we had worked on during the week. This would work with the basal, just have each group working at their own pace. It is okay if they are on different stories in the same basal.