A K-1/2 teacher shows how she sets up independent work stations using red bins with color-coded tasks for each student. She uses adapted books, color-matching activities, and reading binders to help beginning learners work alone and develop foundational skills.
Setting up independent work for younger students. I teach K-1 and 2. Most of my students this year are in kindergarten. We are working on skills such as matching letters. That is not yet an independent skill. However, almost all of my students know their colors. So, this year I chose to color code my independent work. So, as I pull out my red student's bin, These are all independent tasks specific for that student. I will show you those in just a second. Then down here, I've got independent adapted books. You need some errorless matching in your life and easy matching. We are loving these Daily Books. These are phenomenal. I'm talking like super, super simple matching. Color matching, errorless matching. These are phenomenal for my beginning learners, those learners who are really learning how to learn and learning how to do independent work. I mean, here we're just putting the people in the bank, so it's that simple task for them. These are all aligned by color. And then I've got one kid who is doing some binder work, and these are are interactive reading binders. And so this student knows already how to match, and they can actually receptively— they're working on receptive ID of letters, but they know how to match letters.
