Roll and Read Literacy Center
So I was working with my Firsties in a room with another teacher that was working with Third graders. All I had was my little paper and some rainbow sight words, since I only have 15 minutes with them. But you should have seen the way the third grader kept staring at us rolling and reading, I wanted to ask him to join! It’s sooooooo easy to practice fluency with these things. I’m working on a host of activities that just use cards, dice and dominoes - well they’re for Math, but I’m sure I can figure a way to include reading too!
With my small group pull-out sessions limited to 15 minute increments, I’m always on the look out for ways to get these people reading! For some reason though, when I think of dice games, my mind always jumps to math and pom-poms. Little did I know, there’s a whole WORLD of possibilities for using dice with literacy! My mind has left because Matt can’t read any of the words on the paper, but he can read them when I color code them for him on the side (damn, another idea!) and I’m already making lists of all the resources I want to create. I have a feeling this is going to be the year that I figure out all of the literacy-stuff. I’m not giving up math (never), just merging him with a Reading Ph.D Oh, but here, take this Blend Book for free (cause really, why not?), maybe it can help you with teaching someone their sounds and blends. I call him Everton, and you reggae listeners know why! :-) Anyway…
The thing with the younger students and learning to read is the…
Hands On Activities
Reading:
Roll and Read (grade 1) - this file has 36 weeks of roll and reads to get you through the entire school year
Roll and Read (grade 2) - made the file a bit longer because I expect 2nd graders to use 2 number cubes!
Roll and Read (grade 3) - not my product, and this person might never know I referred her, but I love this set of words for the Thirds!
My Blend Book - man was this one a challenge, but I have learned how to bind books during the pandemic…. gives new meaning to homebound
(NOTE: Mix it up and take it up a notch by using numbers greater than 6 and having students add the numbers on the two cubes!)
TEACHER TIP:
Here’s a helpful management tip I came across that will prevent small identified flying dice in your classroom! I use the small plastic containers from Ikea’s set to contain the individual dice. (genius, I know!) Besides, what the hell else can really fit in those things??? I’m super weird, so I use the green for math games and the orange for reading games.
I also REALLY like the large foam dice from Dollar Tree. I bought a set of them for the class, because they kept disappearing. Sure, they fly all over the place too, but you can see from across the room if they are calling out the proper number, which, I guess is more important to me than the chaos that occurs.🙂