Reading Stations - A Sneak Peek

Every day for reading stations, we work on our reading fluency and decoding skills in a variety of ways. 

We spend twenty minutes choral reading with students that are at our same reading level.  Choral reading means we all read the same text at the same time.  This allows not only our eyes to recognize words and our mouths to produce the words, but for our ears to hear the words being said as well.  If we come to unfamiliar words, one of our peers might already know the word and we will hear them say it and read it with our eyes and keep right on going, increasing our familiarity with the word until we are able to read it ourselves! 

We also spend time in small reading groups with Mrs. Koehn and Mrs. Stine to practice our reading comprehension and decoding skills.  Mrs. Koehn and Mrs. Stine help us to learn how to compare fiction with nonfiction; identify characters and settings along with the main topic of a story; we learn about glossaries and captions and how they help us as a reader; we also discuss the components of a story and how the author provided information or entertainment for a reader.  These discussions help us become better readers and writers!

Our third station is seatwork.  This is a time when we practice a decoding or writing skill.  Abigail and Kolleana think they are just having some fun coloring a cute Halloween page, but they are actually coloring by parts of speech!  They had to identify articles (and color them red), distinguish proper nouns from common nouns (and color them black or blue) and find adjectives and prepositions as well!  These activities help build vocabulary, improve writing techniques and even help with capitalization!