Magazine Center
Purpose: To expose students to a different type of media while fostering literacy in reading,
writing, and vocabulary. (I cans attached below)
TEKS: Grade 3, English Language Arts
2(A) use ideas (e.g., illustrations, titles, topic sentences, key words, and
foreshadowing clues) to make and confirm predictions;
4(B) use context to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or
distinguish among multiple meaning words and homographs;
(14) Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Persuasive Text. Students
analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about persuasive text and provide
evidence from text to support their analysis. Students are expected to identify what the
author is trying to persuade the reader to think or do.
20(C) write responses to literary or expository texts that demonstrate an
understanding of the text.
Materials:
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Age appropriate magazines:
o Highlights for Children, Times for Kids, National Geographic Kids
Student notebooks
Pens/pencils
Glue
Scissors
Vocabulary Web Worksheet
Infer Worksheet
What the Teacher will do:
Set up materials in the center. Have some words and pictures already cut out from old
magazines and put in zip-lock baggies for students to pick up. Make sure the bags of photos can
create a good story and that words can create sentences. Create/print Center Instructions
(attached below).
What students will do:
Students will choose one of the “I cans” and complete that activity for the day. If they
choose to infer what an article is about, they will complete the Infer Worksheet and cut/glue
pictures and bold words that helped them on the worksheet and write the main idea. If they read
an article, they will summarize it in their notebook. If they choose a zip-lock baggie of pictures,
they will glue the pictures in a sequence onto blank sheets of paper and write a story that matches
the picture order. If they choose baggies of words, they will create sentences and glue them onto
a sheet of paper. Lastly, if they create a vocabulary web they will choose a word they do not
know from an article they read (cut it out and glue onto worksheet) and write in a synonym,
antonym, sentence, and cut/glue a picture from the magazine to explain the word.
Magazine Center
I Can:
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Infer what an article will be about.
Read an article and write a summary and
what I learned in my Notebook.
3.
Write a story using pictures cut out of the
magazine.
4.
Create sentences using words cut out of a
magazine.
5.
Create Vocabulary web using word in
magazine you don’t understand and a picture.
Name: _______________________________
Date:________________
Vocabulary Web Worksheet
Vocabulary Word
Synonyms:
Antonyms
1. __________
1. __________
2. __________
2. __________
3. __________
3. __________
4. __________
5. __________
Picture
4. __________
5. __________
Sentence:________________________________________________
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Name: _______________________
Date:___________________
Infer Worksheet
Article Title Here
Bold Words
Picture
Bold Words
Additional Information
(topic sentence, Author, key
words, etc.)
Italicized Words
Italicized Words
Main Idea