The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

  Write the room literacy centers in kindergarten (aka. read the room) has become one of my favorite literacy for kindergarten activities! I love to see kindergarten students work through movement activities in the classroom! Write the rooms are fun, engaging and easy to differentiate reading exercises for kindergarten that all children can be successful with. I use write the room activities in every subject to encourage language development and literacy skills. I often have it planned more than once a week! Kindergarten write the room is so much more than just hanging pictures around the classroom and having the kids write down words. I think it is a great way to level the playing field by providing different ways to record the answers, kinesthetic learning opportunities and collaborative work. Kinders often do not recognize the differences when they are busy moving around the room. This way everyone gets a chance to work on their current learning level without feeling self consci...

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For quite a while now I have been looking for a Guided Reading system that worked for my classroom. I needed something that the class would get excited about, kept the parents informed of progress and was easy for me to maintain. After looking through various blogs, products and polling other teachers I realized I had to create my own system. There just wasn't anything that met enough of my needs out there that I could find. So for several months now I have been piecing together what may be the best thing I have ever made for my classroom. INDIVIDUAL GUIDED READING BINDERS!!!!! Here is a view of one of the front cover choices: I had always used simple folders with a reading log and the weeks books. There was no space to send home more literacy building resources that the children could work on. When I would send home extra resources in the kiddos backpacks I would either never get them back or they would get lost in the child's home for a while. I also wanted everything for...