My cooperating teacher has daily sight word stations. The students are broken into small groups of four to six. They each work independently at each station on different activities that help reinforce their sight words. Some examples of the stations are, putting beads on a pipe cleaner to form sight words, putting sight words in alphabetical order and drawing a picture and writing a sentence using sight words. During this independent work time the teacher takes students for small group reading assessments.
I think this is a great idea to keep the other students busy and learning while you have small group assessments. As a teacher you have little time in the day and you have use of the time wisely.
Being in the classroom and experiencing teaching strategies first hand is great! I am learning a lot!
Tammy,
ReplyDeleteIt’s good to hear that it sounds like you are having a great experience so far in your classroom! I love your cooperating teachers ideas, the pipe cleaners with beads to form sight words is a great activity. I agree with you that it’s a great idea to have students busy and learning while other students are in small group assessments. The small station groups sound a lot like what my own cooperating teacher does also! Great work Tammy, looking forward to hearing more!