Sasha from theautismhelper.com shows ten ready-made literacy centers in color-coded binders for early childhood and special education. Each center targets a specific skill: synonyms, antonyms, homophones, grammar, vowel patterns, idioms, and more. Students pick centers using a clothespin schedule, and everything sits on one shelf.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of my Literacy Centers for Early Childhood or Special Education. So there's 10 centers included in this resource. I encourage you to check out the setup video if you want to see some tips on how to set this up. I like to set it up in 10 different binders. It really only takes up one shelf, so it's nice to have all these different centers in one spot but not really time-consuming, um, space-consuming. So there's 10 centers included. I'm going to give a brief rundown of each one and give you guys some of the layouts. So there's really thorough instructions for setup, so you're gonna have no issues with how this should look and how— a few different options on how to organize all these different centers. As well as there are 10 different instructions for the actual work within each center as well. Each center comes with a cover and a spine. For the binders, the instruction, the materials, everything's included. Titles, finished work, all that. I put the Literacy Center rules into each of the binders to review. I like having the visuals there for the extra help, and then I like this So You Think You're Done checklist at the end, and I really get my kids in the routine to follow this to make sure that they have everything that they need. So next, there are the 10 different labels for the binders for the 10 different centers. And then there are the binder spines. So everything's color-coordinated. And the schedule— there's two different versions of the schedule. I like to use clothespins for the students to pick exactly what centers they want to do, and there's two different sizes included in there. So now I'm going to go through the different centers. So the first one works on synonyms. There's— the directions are all visual for each set. The synonym flashcards and the worksheets the students fill out. The next one is one of my favorites. This one, Antonym Avenue, the students are going to put puzzles in order based on antonyms. So here's a label for the baggie. Each center includes a label for the baggie, and then there are 5 different puzzles that students will put together. So this, you'll laminate these, cut them out, and then put them in order based on the antonyms, and then the students will copy the puzzle onto the worksheet. Worksheet. Next is Homophone Hunt. This one includes working on different meanings of different homonyms. So here's the flashcard label, the different flashcards, and the worksheet for drawing and writing sentences of the different meanings of the homophones. Next is Grammar Mad Libs. This is great to work on different parts of speech. Students will write a silly story and draw a picture using different parts of speech in here. So my students really, really love this one. Next is Roll and Write. This is also one of my favorites. So you're gonna pull out 2 different word flashcards from here. Here's the baggie label. And roll the dice and follow the directions. So writing things like using the word in a telling sentence or a question or writing in it, you know, the word in a sentence with 7 words. So here is the worksheet. They'll write the number of the dice and follow the directions. Next is ABC Order. This is something my kids really need to work on. It's a super functional skill. So they pick 15 flashcards and then order the words in ABC order at the top. And I like having this alphabet cue to help remind them of the order of the letters in case. Next is pick a preposition. So they're gonna pick one noun and one preposition and follow the directions to draw the appropriate item. So if you picked apple and under, you draw the apple under the table and then write the sentence. Apples under the table. Next, working on different vowel patterns, both regular and irregular vowel patterns. Students will pick 5— 4 different vowel patterns and then write 5 words with each vowel pattern. Next is idioms. So there's a bunch of different idiom cards. They're gonna write the silly meaning and the real meaning, as well as using the idiom correctly in a sentence. Next, starring syllables. Get the worksheet and students are gonna write sets of words with the appropriate amount of syllables. So that's it! So as you can see, the centers have a huge variety of a ton of different literacy skills. We're including synonyms, antonyms, idioms, vowels, parts of speech, so there's just a ton of things included. This is great for independent work, it's great for guided practice. I love doing these with my kids and working on them together. Um, this is great for partner work, small group work, things like that. So you can really utilize these in a lot of different ways. So again, this was a product preview of Literacy Centers for Early Childhood or Special Education by theautismhelper.com.
