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WRITING
Excellent resources for Writing Center ideas
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
This is a website where your students can choose between writing genres and "spin the wheel" to see their creative writing prompt during a writing center. It is fun, interactive and creates some very interesting topics for your students!
http://www.flocabulary.com/
This website has a multitude of engaging videos for an older elementary or middle school audience, as well as accompanying lesson plans for mini lessons on reading strategies, grammatical conventions, and literature studies. While it is not free, you are able to sign up for a free-trial while you consider a membership.
http://storycorps.org/listen/
This website is excellent for executing writing centers focusing on personal narratives. It has audio versions of narratives for students to listen to, as well as fun animated shorts. Students can review these shorts as a model for the personal narrative that they will be creating, all the while being engaged by the animated content.
Excellent resources for Writing Center ideas
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
This is a website where your students can choose between writing genres and "spin the wheel" to see their creative writing prompt during a writing center. It is fun, interactive and creates some very interesting topics for your students!
http://www.flocabulary.com/
This website has a multitude of engaging videos for an older elementary or middle school audience, as well as accompanying lesson plans for mini lessons on reading strategies, grammatical conventions, and literature studies. While it is not free, you are able to sign up for a free-trial while you consider a membership.
http://storycorps.org/listen/
This website is excellent for executing writing centers focusing on personal narratives. It has audio versions of narratives for students to listen to, as well as fun animated shorts. Students can review these shorts as a model for the personal narrative that they will be creating, all the while being engaged by the animated content.
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READING
Independent reading center-Here students are responsible for completing a set amount of independent reading at their appropriate level. This center would include prediction guides, implementing comprehension strategies (inferencing, summarizing, predicting, etc.), and writing responses to what they have read during the center time.
Vocabulary center-At this center, students can keep vocabulary journals and work on vocabulary practice through a variety of different evidence options (comic strips, writing their own stories, finding their words in newspapers and magazines, visiting http://www.vocabtest.com to take tests that are created based on the words you put on the website, etc.).
http://wg.serpmedia.org/-Visit this website for middle-school specific vocabulary curriculum that can be taught ACROSS content areas! Share this resource with your co-workers who teach these subjects in order to implement vocabulary centers effectively, or just incorporate it in your science and social studies centers if you teach in a self-contained classroom.
Extra literacy center resources
http://cms.springbranchisd.com/Middle/CurriculumSupport/LiteracyStations/tabid/4324/Default.aspx
This website has excellent resources (with mini-lessons, instructions, and even center organization strategies) for literacy centers at the upper elementary and middle school level.
Independent reading center-Here students are responsible for completing a set amount of independent reading at their appropriate level. This center would include prediction guides, implementing comprehension strategies (inferencing, summarizing, predicting, etc.), and writing responses to what they have read during the center time.
Vocabulary center-At this center, students can keep vocabulary journals and work on vocabulary practice through a variety of different evidence options (comic strips, writing their own stories, finding their words in newspapers and magazines, visiting http://www.vocabtest.com to take tests that are created based on the words you put on the website, etc.).
http://wg.serpmedia.org/-Visit this website for middle-school specific vocabulary curriculum that can be taught ACROSS content areas! Share this resource with your co-workers who teach these subjects in order to implement vocabulary centers effectively, or just incorporate it in your science and social studies centers if you teach in a self-contained classroom.
Extra literacy center resources
http://cms.springbranchisd.com/Middle/CurriculumSupport/LiteracyStations/tabid/4324/Default.aspx
This website has excellent resources (with mini-lessons, instructions, and even center organization strategies) for literacy centers at the upper elementary and middle school level.