Resources for Literacy Centers: Fifth Grade
Kellie Doubek, Presenter
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Great Independent Literacy Activities

Check out Puzzle Center for puzzles to play and/or create! Enter your word wall words, vocabulary words from stories or content areas, or find a puzzle that correlate with other classroom activities.

In Fake Out, students have to use context clues and chunks to figure out the definition of a word. Choose words lists by grade level.

And please... spend some time at ReadWriteThink! Whether you check out Flip A Chip or the Word Mover, you'll find great working with word activities. Check out great activities for non-fiction books like Fact Fragment Frenzy and various note taking tools. But don't forget about the numerous tools for writing poems, as well as the Stapleless Book, Story Map, Comic Creator and the Printing Press for writing opportunities. There are too many to list!!

In Poetry Splatter, students choose words to create poems. They can print their poems when they're finished.

Collabor-O-Write gives students the chance to enter a story, add to an existing story, illustrate a story, or write a story about an illustration... all online!

Enter the appropriate parts of speech to create a Wacky Web Tale.

Power Proofreading will help students improve their grammar skills.

BBC's Words and Pictures

Favorites from Read Between the Lions

Available in Spanish!