ABC Work Station

• Sorting or making letters

• Reading or writing ABC books

• Sorting or making words

• Doing word hunts

• Playing word games

•Using interactive word walls

See pages 76-77 for more things you can have your students do.

What the Children Do

ABC Work Station

• How to form letters

•How to read and write ABC books

•How to play word games

• How to sort and speed sort

• How to use dictionaries and word books

•How to use the interactive word wall

• How to use and store ABC materials

What the Teacher Needs to Model

Picture from Mrs. Wallbrecht’s 1st Grade Class

Niños

See pages 82-84 for more ideas of things you need to model.

ABC Work Station

• Assign specific tasks to groups of students based

on their needs

To do this you can try using:

•Task Cards

•Use a chart

•Use a color coded system to designate which

activities they can choose for their practice

level

Differentiation at this Work Station

See pages 86 and 87 for more ideas on how to differentiate.

ABC Work StationWays to Keep the Station Going

•Add a new word study games

•Change the words in the games and activities

•Vary the materials for making words

•Add new word study books

•Let students design their own task cards for things to do at work station

•Add new word study books