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  • Union Hill School
  • Worcester, MA
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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An essential part of the first grade curriculum is being able to read fluently with good comprehension by the end of the school year. While I am instructing students at guided reading, the remaining students are paired and given hands on literacy activities. These literacy activities are also called my literacy workstations. These workstations are geared toward improving various literacy skills including: sight word recognition, phonics, phonemic awareness, writing, and listening. The Build-A-Word stamps, Phonemic Awareness Instant Learning Centers, Stack and Build Phonics Flip Books, CVC Spelling Board Games, and Word Hangman will be used in my ABC Workstation. In the ABC Workstation students are provided with hands on materials, such as these word building games, that allows students to practice their phonics and phonemic awareness skills with a partner. The Sight Word Magnets, Stamp and Write Sight Words, Beat the Clock! Sight Words Practice Boards, First 100 Sight Words Talking Boards, Fishing for Sight Words, Sight Word Skillet, Magnetic Sight Word Sentence Board, Sight Word String Ups, and the Sight Word Seashell game will all be used in my Sight Word Workstation. The Sight Word Workstation allows students to practice building and writing their sight words so that these words become more recognizable and automatic to them. The Storyteller Writing Box and Writing Prompt Cubes will be used in my Writing Workstation, which will help improve their writing skills. The benefits of literacy workstations are that students have the opportunity to learn through discourse and have fun at the same time. The hands on materials that I've carefully selected will reinforce literacy skills being taught and also allow students to actively engage in these activities with one another. With these resources, my students will have the ability to choose various hands on activities to help improve their literacy skills.

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An essential part of the first grade curriculum is being able to read fluently with good comprehension by the end of the school year. While I am instructing students at guided reading, the remaining students are paired and given hands on literacy activities. These literacy activities are also called my literacy workstations. These workstations are geared toward improving various literacy skills including: sight word recognition, phonics, phonemic awareness, writing, and listening. The Build-A-Word stamps, Phonemic Awareness Instant Learning Centers, Stack and Build Phonics Flip Books, CVC Spelling Board Games, and Word Hangman will be used in my ABC Workstation. In the ABC Workstation students are provided with hands on materials, such as these word building games, that allows students to practice their phonics and phonemic awareness skills with a partner. The Sight Word Magnets, Stamp and Write Sight Words, Beat the Clock! Sight Words Practice Boards, First 100 Sight Words Talking Boards, Fishing for Sight Words, Sight Word Skillet, Magnetic Sight Word Sentence Board, Sight Word String Ups, and the Sight Word Seashell game will all be used in my Sight Word Workstation. The Sight Word Workstation allows students to practice building and writing their sight words so that these words become more recognizable and automatic to them. The Storyteller Writing Box and Writing Prompt Cubes will be used in my Writing Workstation, which will help improve their writing skills. The benefits of literacy workstations are that students have the opportunity to learn through discourse and have fun at the same time. The hands on materials that I've carefully selected will reinforce literacy skills being taught and also allow students to actively engage in these activities with one another. With these resources, my students will have the ability to choose various hands on activities to help improve their literacy skills.

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