Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work

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This book will help teachers solve the dilemma: What does the rest of my class do while I'm working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers practical suggestions for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and how to keep them going throughout the year.

Each chapter includes:how to introduce each station;materials to include at each station;what to model;how to solve problems;how to differentiate;how to assess and keep students accountable;reflection questions for professional development.

Materials in both English and Spanish are provided in the extensive resource section. Throughout the book the author has included photos of literacy workstations from a variety of classrooms in which she has worked to illustrate the methods discussed in the text.

What Customers Say About Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work:

Use all station materials in your teaching, students will then model this teaching when they go to the station for independent practice. If you want to set up literacy stations in your classrooms (k-2), or you just want to re-vamp the ones you already have, then Debbie Diller's book is very helpful. The key to successful stations is to teach the stations from the beginning of the year. Great ideas and useful resource for teachers of literacy stations. Great summer reading for teachers.

The book addresses many kind of centers, too, more than I would even try to implement in one year. I am a second year second-grade teacher, looking to improve my reading centers. This book is very practical, but also provides rationales for why to provide each center, and gives concrete examples of adaptations for different grade levels, K-2. Unlike other books that are mainly about reproducibles and activities (although there are some) this book shows you how you can use classroom materials you already have, and adapt lessons previously taught, in your centers. I think this is going to help me get off to a strong start this year.

The kids like it too. I love this book. Very helpful and realisticway to set up a classroom that works for theteacher and enhances the learning of the students.I think changing the name centers to Literacy Work Stations,is brilliant. They like having a senseof purpose, and it really cuts down on discipline problems. Everyone in the class can get down to business and feel successful.

This is just the book I was hoping to find. It has many great ideas for setting up literacy centers for kindergarteners. I shared the book with my kindergarten team, and they all want their own copy of the book.

This is an amazing book. I took it with me on the plane and lost it.so I re-ordered it on-line. I am a kindergarten teacher and use a lot of these ideas for literacy centers. Her ideas are great.