Literacy Work Stations/aka Reading Rotations

ONE - Reading Strategies

BBC KS2 Bitsize offers several Reading Skill Lessons.

Choose 1 and start with PLAY, next time go to READ, then WATCH and finally QUIZ. Do this until you have mastered the QUIZ and understand the skill completely.

• Inferences
• Context Clues and Animal Adaptation
• Main Idea
• INFERENCE RIDDLES 
• ACTIVITY LIST 

TWO - Word Work

• Prefix match 
• Prefix jig-words 
• Prefix MatchWord
• Crystal Castle (in- and im-) 
• Flamingo (-y and -ly) 
• im- prefix
• Prefix quiz 
• Latin and Greek roots and prefixes  
•  Rooting out Words 
• Suffix quiz
• -less or -ment 
• Suffixes - -less, -ness, -ly, -ful

THREE - Figurative Language

• Eye on Idioms
• Step with Idioms
• Parts of Speech - Nouns
• Parts of Speech - Adjectives
• Rhymes 
• Compound and Complex Sentences 
• Complex, Compound or Simple 
• Conjunctions 
• Writing a Comment 
• Parts of Speech Tutorial
• Connectives Soccer Match 
• Look up Words by Parts of Speech 
• http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/
• Make Dice with Adjectives 

FOUR - Listening

• Read and listen.
• Online Audio Stories 
• http://storybird.com/
• http://www.zooburst.com/
• http://storynory.com/
• Story Maker 
• Word Tamer 

FIVE - Wild Card

• Invention at Play
• Telescopic Text
• Persuasion Map 
• Poetry Archive for Kids 
• Friendly Letter Maker
• Writing Fun
• Word a Day 
• Phrase Predictor 
• Bio-Cube Maker