Description

Year-long centers are my absolute favorite way to structure literacy centers into the class. And when I discovered how to incorporate student choice into my centers {instead of rotating learners at my centers and changing centers activities out every day}, I really began to get my evenings and weekends back. Woot!

Visual Literacy Center Menu {A Google Drive Resource}

If you choose to use the free choice idea with your year-long literacy centers, a visual literacy center menu is a MUST! This can help tremendously with managing your learners.

Even if you choose to rotate learners at each center, a visual literacy center menu can be the perfect fit for certain learners, like ELL or those with special needs.

The best part about this Google Drive resource is you can copy, paste, drag/drop to completely custom create your visual center work menu. When you have it as you’d like, just print it out. And when you need to change it, you don’t need to get out the scissors and tape. Just hop back into your Google Slides, change it up, and then print it out.

I highly recommend using broad topics if you don’t want to change out your menu often, so that lots of activities can fit under each.

The 40+ literacy center “cards” you can pick from include more broad ones like:

ABC
comprehension
drama
listening
pocket chart
poetry
reading
technology
word work
writing

For some learners, including the broad centers on their visual menu may be a too abstract. It may help you with managing these learners if they have more concrete and specific activities on their menu.

So, these are the more specific center options:

big books
board {SMARTboard}
buddy reading
computer
creative writing
discovery {integrating science}
dramatic play
fluency
games
grammar
journal writing
letter tiles
magnetic letters
nonfiction
phonics
playdough
publishing
puppets
puzzles
read & think
read & write
read the room
read to self
retelling
seat work
sight words
small group
sticky stix {Wikki Stix}
tablet
vocabulary
write the room
writing response
your choice {free choice center}

Not a Google Classroom? No worries! You don’t have to be to use this resource. Directions on how to use it on Google Slides and Microsoft OneDrive are included in the download.

You DO need a Google account and access to the internet. If you plan on printing it out, you will also need access to a printer.

TERMS OF USE:
This resource was created for you to use with your child/students or with multiple learners in YOUR OWN classroom or tutoring setting. Please do not sell, host, reproduce, giveaway, or store on any other site (including a blog, Facebook, 4Shared, Amazon Inspire, Dropbox, etc.). Thank you!