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Independent reading is a great way for students to build their literacy skills. And while it would be wonderful to discourse with every student during this time, limited schedules usually don't allow for it.

Five-minute written reading responses, however, are an ideal way to understand every student's thinking and comprehension when time is short. Read on to discover exciting ideas from Genia Connell, a third-grade teacher in Michigan. They will have your students sharing their thoughts in five minutes or less!

Like many students today, Connell's third graders are very aware of social media, so she likes to implement a classroom version. She asks students to "tweet" about their reading by sharing their thoughts in 30 words or less.

Connell finds that guiding students with prompts is particularly effective. Try asking: What are you thinking or wondering about your book right now? or How has one of the characters changed since you started reading?

To give the activity even more of a social flavor - and to further build comprehension skills - ask students to add their own hashtags related to the title of the book or the theme of their tweet.

Connell often uses tic-tac-toe boards for her weekly spelling and word studies, and finds the same concept works just as well for reading responses.

"On days when students are doing a 'shorty' response, they can choose an open square on the tic-tac-toe board and respond to it on a page in their reading binder. Part of the fun is trying to achieve a tic-tac-toe, but students are actually answering prompts that are within, about, and beyond the text," she says.
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This countdown response focuses on the basics. Using a half-page sheet, students are prompted to provide information about their reading. The prompts touch on summarizing, sequencing, and vocabulary skills while encouraging students' wondering and comprehension strategies.
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The At First I Thought response is a great option for later in the year when students have become more sophisticated readers and can recognize that characters evolve as the story progresses.

Connell likes this quick reading response because it allows her students to share how their thinking about a character or story line has changed during reading.

"I've had students fill this response out without it even being assigned because they've had a sudden epiphany while reading that they want to put down in words," she says.
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Connell considers these quick reading responses as a form of written conversation between her and the student. As such, she prefers to only write positive comments about what they have done well or a great insight they had in order to motivate and engage them further.

"While reading their responses, I take note of misunderstandings students may have, or any redirection they may need, and I save those conversations for when we interact one-on-one," she says.

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Literature Circles Anchor Chart- Teach your students the fundamentals of successfully participating in a literature circle with this anchor chart!

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Access various reading and math resources and educational tools related to Lexile and Quantile levels for teachers and parents.

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When you finally have all of your data, your guided reading groups formed, and your materials gathered, you may think you are ready for guided reading. There is just one problem. You need activities for literacy centers.

And you don't just need any kind of literacy center activity. You need something that is meaningful, aligned to standards, provides practice in an area that your students actually need, and you need something that doesn't wear you out preparing.

I have gathered eight activities for literacy centers that I have shared over the years FREE. They are kid-tested and teacher approved!

1. Alphabet Sequencing

A great beginning of the year activity is alphabet sequencing. It uses a very familiar tool- magnetic letters. It's easy to prepare and is a great literacy center activity for your word work station or magnetic letter station.

If you want to get fancy, you can put magnetic tape on the back of the strips and the students can put them on the side of your file cabinet to complete. Get this Alphabet Sequencing Activity HERE free!

2. Beginning Sounds Boom Cards™

If you are new around here, then let me have the pleasure of introducing you to the glory that is Boom Cards™! Teachers (& parents), Boom Cards™ are awesome for so many reasons and you can read more about how to use them HERE in this blog post.

In a nutshell, they are interactive task cards that are SELF-CHECKING! You can assign certain decks to students, monitor their progress, and kids truly enjoy them. You can try a FREE deck that focuses on beginning sounds HERE.

3. Name Activities

When you are working to build classroom community, learning each other's names is a great place to begin. I loved having my kids do all kinds of activities in the pocket chart station with each other's names. I have five FREE Name Activities that your kids can do.

If you don't have a pocket chart station, this will work great in a word work station, too.

4. Listening Center Recording Sheets

Setting up a listening station is one of the first few things I do as I introduce centers. It's simple, the kids love it, and it's very engaging. If you want to read more about how I do that, you can check out this blog post that is all about introducing the listening station.

If you don't have books and CDs (Do they even sell these anymore?), you can use sites such as StorylineOnline.net to have kids listen to books. After they listen 2 or 3 times, you can have them fill out a recording page to share about what they heard!

Click HERE to grab the 4 free listening center data sheets!

5. Independent Reading in Literacy Centers

No matter what stations are your favorites to include, I know that independent reading is happening in your classroom. There just isn't a better way for kids to authentically practice reading than grabbing a book and reading to their heart's desire!

With all that is going on getting books in your kids' hands may be tricky. Here are a few favorite websites you can use for digital book access!

Grab a tablet or computer and share these favorite book sites with your kids!

6. Book Making

One of the first stations that a co-worker introduced me to that I just loved and used every year in one way or another was a "Book Making" station. The way this station works is simple. I would put a mini-book in a tub and kids would either have to complete the text or simply color the pictures. Then, their job was to read the book with 3 friends. Kids loved this station and it was a great way for them to build their own library both at school in their independent book tubs and at home!

You can grab this FREE My School mini-book right here!

7. Writing Prompts

How are you squeezing in some extra writing? I'm thinking beyond writer's workshop. Just like in reading we al like to pick and choose what we read about, as writers, we all enjoy some freedom there, too. You can do this by providing blank writing paper or by providing some fun, thematic writing prompts. Here are a few free writing prompts your writers will love!

8. Poetry Station

It took me a few years to embrace a poetry station. In my classroom, it was probably more often called the "Pocket Chart" station. I would write the poem of the week on sentence strips and place it in our station. The kids would work to re-order the sentence strips, read the poem, and then place a copy in their Song and Poem books that were a big part of their book tubs. Kids LOVED reading the poems over and over. Plus, it is a great way to practice fluency!

Don't delay adding this station to your rotation if you haven't already! Grab a FREE poem HERE and get started!

Wherever you may be in your literacy center journey my best advice is to just begin. I shared some tips on beginning centers and more of my favorite centers here in this post. Find a literacy center that you can easily teach your kids, practice it with them, and then let them shine! Kids love literacy centers.

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