Skills Block

Dadada Da... Skills Block! Dadada Da... Skills Block! We learn our ABCs, Counting 1-2-3s, Standards Yes Siree... at Skills Block time! This is the song that we sing to start our Skills Block each and every day!

Skills Block is the portion of our state mandated 90 minute Reading Block, in which we focus on developmental skills that our students use when reading. It is also one of our students' favorite parts of the day because they get to go to their Literacy Work Stations around the classroom. In the stations, the students get to work hands on with materials that reinforce the skills that they are learning during the mini lesson. The focus is on practice and purpose that is linked to our daily teaching. There are 10 stations total in our classroom that the student go to weekly. Some of the activities include: Listening Station, Writing Station, Word Work, Poetry, Creation Station, Computers and Classroom Library. The students rotate to two different stations each day. For our emergent readers, these work stations will give the children the opportunity to develop phonological awareness (the ability to isolate and manipulate the sounds in language), print awareness and concepts of print, and learn about letters and sounds. The students love stations so much because they are fun and engaging -- which is exactly what I want learning in our classroom to be!
Ask your child which station is their favorite - I'm sure they will have lots to share! :)