Daily 5 Stations

Today was the first day that we did our Daily 5 stations in class and I am so pleased with how it went! I am currently using 5 stations (read to self, read to someone, work on writing, work on words, and meet with the teacher). I will be sharing more about this later this week with you all. 

Sorry about the poor quality of pictures, but you've got to love the iPhone! :)

When students are meeting with me this week, we are doing an activity that goes along with out persuasive unit that we are currently doing. We read a short article together about the driving age and whether teenagers should drive at 16 or 18 years old. While reading, we highlighted and marked on it when we found techniques that the author used to try and persuade us. 

When we finished, this is what our article looked like. 

We did some things on the article like...

Once we finished reading and marking the article, we then worked together to write a persuasive paragraph together using the OREO technique. OREO stands for Opinion, Reason, Explanation, and Opinion. I even had some Oreos that we used for this activity and the students loved eating them! Later this week, students will be responsible for writing their own persuasive paragraphs using the same strategy. The article they will use for that is about bullies. 

My librarian actually gave me this article and it was from an old Scholastic Scope magazine. I am really wanting to budget for it next year. Do you use any of the Scholastic magazines in your classroom? There are 3 of them in my opinion that would be great for my 6th graders. If you don't use Scholastic magazines, but use something else, what is it?

We have also been making lots of anchor charts together in class too. Here are the two that we made last week. 

Hope everyone has a terrific Tuesday!