Learning stations are perfect for independent reading:
We are one month into reader’s workshop and many pages have been read. It’s been a wonderful thing, but because I’d been sick for awhile, I hadn’t taken in my students’ reader’s notebooks and, to be honest, hadn’t given them a lot of instruction on how to use them. They are meant to be used as a place for them explore ideas and to take notes on the different literary elements they discover as they read their independent novels. They will use these notes for Socratic seminars and other assignments we will do later in the semester.
I knew that we needed to get refocused, so I created some learning stations that corresponded with the pages in their notebooks and we spent a class focusing on five of them: point of view, author’s message, character, great quotes and questions. I told students to choose a station to start at, based on the section of their notebook that needed more detail.

Next week, we’re going to start looking at author style, and students will move through stations that have them look for examples of figurative language and different types of sentences. They will still be expected to keep working on their journals independently, but these stations worked so well, that we will be using them much more frequently from now on!
Would you like to create your own stations? You can purchase mine at my TpT store. Click HERE to check it out.
Do you have the journal pages available as well? I was not sure if these were included with the reader's notebook stuff…
The journal pages are in the reader's notebook at my store, but the learning stations are a different product. You can email me at room213custom@gmail.com if you need more clarification. Thanks! J
Is this and your Reader's notebook included in the "Reader's Workshop Bundle {Secondary}"?