Back to School Reading Centers for SECOND GRADE

These Back to School centers include 5 center activities to review first grade reading skills at the beginning of the second grade. These reading centers were designed with student-friendly instructions and passages so students can complete the work independently.

Center activities include rhyming words, ABC order, and sentence building. The final center is a reading response activity. Students will need access to picture books to complete this activity.

We’ve made it simple to incorporate these low-prep lessons into your reading instruction. The centers include student-friendly directions and are intended to be clear enough for students to complete independently while still providing adequate practice of the reading skill.

These Back to School Reading Centers will help students review first grade reading skills.

What’s Included:

• Teacher directions & tips
• 5 center activities (Including rhyming words, ABC order, sentence building, reading a short story for details with a basic picture book)
• Answer keys
• Student recording books
• Color and black and white options

Includes a BONUS Starting Reading Centers resource complete with 8 days of lesson plans to help implement centers and set students up for success all year long!

❤️❤️ Why You’ll Love it: ❤️❤️

• Easy to prep and use materials save valuable time
• Hands-on center activities are fun and engaging
• Each center focuses on one standard-based reading skill at a time
• Provides rigorous practice and preparation for standardized tests

How to Use in Class:

• This resource is designed to be flexible and easy to fit into the start of your school year. Each day’s lesson takes about 20-30 minutes and fits right into your reading workshop block, whether that’s first thing in the morning or whenever your literacy block falls in your schedule.
• This resource is intended to be over a two-week time frame, but this can easily be adjusted to meet your needs. How long these centers take will also depend on how much center time you have and how quickly your students work. If students finish centers early, they can read a book to themselves.
• This reading center includes 5 center activities and one student recording book. The answers to all five centers can be written into the one recording book. The recording book takes two sheets of paper.
• Five different center activities give you lots of options to keep students busy while you meet with small groups.
• I highly recommend putting all five centers out and allowing your students to complete the center activities in any order that they wish.
• These centers take 4-6 sheets of paper. I do recommend cardstock and lamination for durability. Depending on the size of your groups, you might want to print more than one copy of each center.
• Center 5 requires that students read two different books and respond to a question relating to the unit skill. You can allow them to use read alouds, choose books from your classroom library, or choose from books that you have preselected. You could even have them use a story from your basal.

Differentiation:

• Centers are easy to differentiate. Some students may complete all 5 centers during the time frame. Other students may only complete two or three center activities or parts of each center. It is easy for students to work at their own pace.
• Allow students to work with a partner if they struggle with independent center work
• Students can use different leveled texts for reading response activities.
• Allow students to utilize reference materials for assistance completing centers.