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Learning Center Design

Learning Center Design


 * Author: Lynn Dibble
 * Title of the Centers: Dr. Seuss Day learning centers
 * Grade Level: Second
 * Content Area: Communication Arts
 * Types of centers: skill
 * Organization of centers: rotational
 * Number of Centers: 3
 * Time Needed: 45 minutes

Learning Objectives:


 * Cognitive Objective: Students will use Dr. Seuss literature and characters to practice reading skills.
 * 1. Students will learn the appropriate endings to sentences: question marks, exclamation points, and periods, and how to use them.
 * 2. Students will learn to visualize and draw what they read in a poem.
 * 3. Students will learn to rhyme words from Dr. Seuss stories.
 * Behavioral Objective: Students will add endings to sentences from Dr. Seuss books to show the three different kinds of sentence endings.
 * Students will read a Dr. Seuss poem and visualize/draw what is happening in the poem.
 * Students will play a rhyme matching game to show their knowledge of words that rhyme

Materials:


 * Poetry book for each student to draw their illustrations on
 * Markers, crayons, pencils
 * Rhyming matching game
 * Record sheet for matching game
 * Cards for punctuation posted around the room
 * Clipboards to write on
 * Record sheet for the punctuation hunt

Center Activity Description:


 * 1) Sentence word hunt: The students will search the room for sentence cards. When they find a card they will write the sentence on their paper and put the correct punctuation at the end of the sentence. Then, the students will hand in their work. The teacher will act as a facilitator and will be moving around the room helping students that are struggling, but allowing students to do the work on their own. This station will last 15 minutes. Students will move to the Dr. Seuss poetry station from here.
 * 2) Dr. Seuss poetry station: Students will read the poem that is broken up into small sections. They will draw what they picture in their minds for each part of the poem. They will need to use markers, crayons, and pencils to illustrate the poem. The teacher will act as a facilitator and will be moving around the room helping students that are struggling, but allowing students to do the work on their own. This station will last 15 minutes. Students will move to the rhyming match up game from here.


 * 1) Rhyming match up game: The students will lay the cards upside down and take turns trying to find rhyming matches. The students will be able to make matches and the person with the most matches is the winner. The students will write all of the rhyming word matches on their record sheet. The teacher will act as a facilitator and will be moving around the room helping students that are struggling, but allowing students to do the work on their own. This station will last 15 minutes. Students will move to the Sentence word hunt from here.

Assessment:


 * Informal assessments: Each station will have an assessment. At the rhyming station the students will hand in their rhyming match record sheet so the teacher can check if students understand rhyming and rhymed words correctly.
 * At the sentence hunt station, students will hand in their recording sheet in order for the teacher to check if the students used correct punctuation.
 * At the poetry station the teacher will look at their illustrations to see if the pictures the students drew matched up with the words.
 * The stations will be assessed to see if the students have understanding of visualizing, punctuation, and rhyming.

Materials:

Stations: Oh The Punctuation You Will Use! Station from: awesomein1st.blogspot.com

Poetry Station from: steeleinfirst.blogspot.com

Rhyming Matching Station from: thecolorfulclassroom.blogspot.com