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Quick Literacy Centers for Back to School

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Use a set of quick and easy to use literacy centers at the beginning of the year as you start to assess your students. The 13-page packet provides writing and reading activities with simple directions that allows new class members to work independently in their new classroom.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

literacy centers, interviewing, friendship, back to school

Additional Tags

classroom support

Instructional Ideas

  • Use during the first few weeks of school in literacy centers
  • Have centers and boxes of books set up before starting

Classroom Considerations

  • Some activites require dice and informational/literature books

Pros

  • Includes 13 pages of activities with easy-to-follow directions
  • Helps make friends on the first few days of school by promoting interviews

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.1.1 RL.1.2 RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.2.3 RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3 RI.1.1 RI.1.2 RI.1.3 RI.2.1 RI.2.2 RI.2.3 RI.3.1 RI.3.2 RI.3.3 RF.1.4.a RF.2.4.a RF.3.4.a SL.1.1.a SL.2.1.a SL.3.1.a L.1.1.a L.2.1.a L.3.1.a

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