Learning to Love Literacy Centers
Literacy centers have two purposes:
(1) to engage students while the teacher works with small reading groups
(2) to reinforce key literacy skills (vocabulary, reading, phonics, word study, mechanics)
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Sustainable Center Activities to adapt for your classroom. We strongly recommend creating a small menu of consistent centers. Using simplistic, flexible, skills-focused activities (rather than story or theme-based activities) for these centers creates predictability that improves student success and maintains teacher sanity. |
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Management Tools developed by classroom teachers. One of the great challenges of literacy centers is management of the students, the activities, the time. The specifics of your management system will depend on your personal teaching style. However, there are several tried and true management methods. |
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CREATING CENTERS that WORK!
CREATING CENTERS that WORK!