Guided Reading Rotation Board

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Guided Reading Rotation Board

• Making it Work in Your Classroom

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Agenda

• Welcome
• How to Introduce the Rotation Board
• Troubleshooting
• Rotation Board Activities
• Meet with Grade Team
• Questions

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What is a Rotation Board?

• Use a work board to manage classroom activities
  while doing guided reading
• Lets students rotate through a variety of reading
  and writing tasks
• Lets you focus on small groups of students
• You change jobs only once a week

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Using the Icons

• You assign the meaning to the icons
• You can choose activities to fit your program
• Select only reading and writing activities or
  include activities for math, science, social
  studies, art, drama, etc.

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Getting Ready for the Board

• Management mini-lessons
• Never put out an activity that you have not
  modeled several times or completed as a whole
  group
• Choose meaningful activities that will allow
  students to practise
• Start with one rotation at a time

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What will you do if?

• A student needs to go to the bathroom
• A student hits another student
• Students are lacking supplies to complete work
• Students finish early

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Choosing Activities

• Make them meaningful
• Integrate your themes or units
• Combine reading and writing jobs
• Combine stationary and more active jobs
• Combine jobs that are done independently or with
  partners or small groups

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Troubleshooting

• I dont have room for centres.
• How can this board work for me?
• Use baskets, bins or rolling drawers to hold the
  materials that students will need.
• Have students use materials at their desks or on
  the floor.

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Troubleshooting

• What if students do not complete all of the
  activities listed for their group?
• Remember that the activities are for practice
  only
• The goal is not completed work
• Can save incomplete work in special folder to be
  completed when finished early

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Troubleshooting

• How long will it take to get the
  activities ready?
• The activities require little planning
• Basic materials are already in place for most
  centres
• Change as many activities as you wish each week
  to keep students engaged

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Troubleshooting

• What if there is no room at a
  centre?
• Can happen often, especially at computer centre
• Can use a sand timer or have students in same
  group stager starting times at one centre

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Troubleshooting

• How long do children stay in each
  activity? Do children have to move through
  the activities on a signal?
• You can use a signal but some students may not
  have completed the activity
• Better to model how each activity should be
  completed and allow students to move as
  individuals

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Rotation Board Activities

• Teachers will have two sessions lasting 10
  minutes each to spend at their table discussing
  different uses for the manipulatives in their bin

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Meet with Grade Teams

• Please find a quiet area in the library with your
  grade partners and share your ideas for the
  different centres.

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• Questions
• Please dont forget to pick up a handout on your
  way out!
• Thank you