- Writing activities can be an integral part of any word work center. You can do this by designing specific writing activities or simply incorporating writing into other activities. Have students practice writing their spelling words using different colors of markers. Allow students to listen to audiobooks and have them draw or write something that happened in the story. Send students on a word "scavenger" hunt and have them use a clipboard to write down words that begin with a specific letter or belong to a particular word family.
- Word work centers are a perfect opportunity for students to practice their spelling words. Give students a set of letter beads and have them string their spelling words onto pipe cleaners then write them on paper. Use cutout paper letters and have students make their spelling words. If their spelling words fall into specific categories, have them group together all of the words with similar beginnings or endings. Have students write their spelling words on whiteboards, with crayons or on special paper.
- The word wall, or group of words that students are learning to read, can provide many word work center activities. Have a child write down any word wall words that are a certain length or any words that begin with the same letter as his name. Have students look for their word wall words in a poem or story. Allow them to choose two or three word wall words and use them in a sentence. Have students practice forming their word wall words from modeling clay, string or even toothpicks.
- Many word work center activities can also include reading. Have students read a poem aloud then circle or highlight all of the rhyming words, all words beginning with a specific letter or any word wall words that they see. Have them use counters to count the syllables in a specific line or word of a poem. Use plastic pipe to make "phonics phones" so students can hear themselves read aloud without disturbing other children working nearby.
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