Re: I hate fountas and pinnell reading stations

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I have been using the F/P literacy stations this year and
have had much success. I'm not sure the grade level or
administrative support Bev has, but here are some things
that I think has worked for me ( this is my 33rd year
teaching). We have an hour block of reading each day and my
reading teacher pushes in ( 2nd grade class). We modeled,
modeled,modeled the way we wanted the stations to look and
sound like (yes, it took time, but it sure did work).
Anything in the stations the children had seen prior ( big
books, listening center, poems, word study). We practiced
what buddy readers would look like,etc. No one crawled
around, if we saw a child not doing his/her job, we'd
quietly would get up from our reading group, took the child
to our reading group table, and sat them in a chair, not
saying a thing to the child. When it was time to switch
groups, I spoke to the child and reinforced what their role
was...yes, it took away for a moment from the guided reading
group, but again the children got the message. At this time
of the year in 2nd, we are moving away from the stations per
se, and the children will be doing a Word Study activity and
then independent reading ( with reading response journals to
write in) while groups are going on. I'm fortunate that our
school is very supportive of the stations and we've have
frequent meetings to chat about our reading. I also use
"responsive classroom" techniques which minimizes behavior
problems. Wishing you the best

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