Language arts centers

Classroom teachers have a ton of daily tasks to guarantee that students are engaged and learning. It's a tough job, and a stressful one, too. Teachers wear out easily if their classrooms aren't well managed. Creating a classroom that runs itself while you teach in smaller groups is the best way to keep students engaged.

This free Kindergarten sentence building and writing center is perfect for practice with making simple sentences for beginning writers!

Our snowball digraph puzzles are a fun, hands-on winter literacy activity. Just match the digraph to a word that starts with it!

Looking for fun and skills-based reading and language arts activities for your third, fourth and fifth grade students? Upper elementary reading centers can help you fill your centers without spending lots of extra time. These engaging activities are perfect for literacy centers, writing centers, reading centers and more. Easily differentiate learning in your classroom with these language arts and reading activities. #upperelementary #reading #writing #3rdgrade #4thgrade #5thgrade

Magnet letter word building today! Visual directions are helping my word work center to run so much more smoothly this year! Link in…

March editable sight word centers for kindergarten and 1st grade allow you to make sight word games and centers that match your sight word list!

If there's one thing I always am on the look out for, its some good "go-to's" for my Word Work center. Last year, my kiddos got into a good routine for their daily Word Work centers, but I always liked to mix it up- Lord knows I get bored doing the same thing all the time, let alone my little firsties. Throughout the year, I ended up making a bunch of activity sheets (some ideas borrowed and changed, some ideas new) for word work and decided to offer one HUGE freebie from my TpT store. The…

Centers are the hallmark of my classroom. Call them whatever you want: purposeful practice, rotations, stations…whatever they are to you. They are IMPORTANT. Without a solid center routine, your small group instruction is disrupted and disjointed. Without a solid center routine, your literacy bloc

Jenga game cards are easily my favorite way to teach and reinforce basic math fact, phonics, or grammar practice.

Make center time in your classroom one that is filled with engaged learning and exploration. As students work independently you are ready to work with reading groups or do small group instruction. But getting your centers set up is the beginning. This blog post details your step by step process for setting up a center rotation that your students will love. It includes literacy center and math center ideas as well as tips for organizing centers all year long.