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Home : 2007 : Nov : 21
I don't know if you have a class subscription to Time for Kids, Scholastic or National Geographic. But I use these a lot in fourth grade stations. You could have them code the text with post it notes for important information or new information. (they use the symbols + for new information, ? for I don't understand or still have questions about, ! Wow fact, and * I already knew that. With the younger children, maybe have them find three WOW facts from the text and then write a short summary with those facts. I do a lot of two word summaries with the National Geographics where after reading the text they think of the two most important words that would best summarize the selection and then explain why they chose these words. Of course any of these strategies would need to be modeled before you put it in a station.
You could also have them do reader's theater in stations, listening stations with books on tape, you can buy one of those cheap small tape recorders and have them record themselves reading a text they are familiar with (you would have to show them how to use the tape recorder), make your own whisper phones for them to read to themselves, etc.
I too am fault for not having all my work stations being "reading". We do a lot of grammar games, spelling, writing, etc. as well during our work stations and personally, I don't see anything wrong with that. Has your curriculum director read any of Debbie Diller's books. She has a lot of work stations that aren't necessarily "reading" but they are language arts based and word work, writing and phonics are all a part of a good language arts curriculum.
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