Collaborative Literacy Stations
This lesson plan uses collaborative literacy stations to provide intensive, differentiated English Language Arts (ELA) instruction, and engage students in ELA, mathematics and science activities. At the beginning of each day, the teacher provides wholegroup instruction to review the current reading comprehension strategy. Then, students move through four stations – Small Group Instruction, Non-Fiction Listening Station, Big Book Station, and the Buddy Reading Station – where students work with either the teacher or their peers to explore concepts in ELA, mathematics, and science.
Collaborative Literacy Stations
This lesson plan uses collaborative literacy stations to provide intensive, differentiated English Language Arts (ELA) instruction, and engage students in ELA, mathematics and science activities. At the beginning of each day, the teacher provides wholegroup instruction to review the current reading comprehension strategy. Then, students move through four stations – Small Group Instruction, Non-Fiction Listening Station, Big Book Station, and the Buddy Reading Station – where students work with either the teacher or their peers to explore concepts in ELA, mathematics, and science.
English Arts
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Use illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
Mathematics
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. *(Special note: more details can be found in the Mathematics Glossary, Table 1)*
Science
Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the basic needs of plants and animals.
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About the Teacher
Tara Dougherty
Kingsley Charter Elementary
DeKalb County SchoolsTara Dougherty is currently an Instructional Coach at DeKalb Elementary School of the Arts. Previously, she was a first grade teacher at Kingsley Charter Elementary School. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University, and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from the University of California Irvine. Her best piece of teaching advice is: In the classroom every year you get a fresh start and everyday is a new learning experience. Self-reflection is critical to be an effective educator. It can be scary sometimes, as it requires you to be honest and evaluate yourself on a daily basis. Ultimately, self-reflection provides you with the knowledge and insight into being the best for your students everyday.
