Primary Literacy Centers: Making Reading and Writing Stick!

by Susan Nations, Susan Nations

More Primary Literacy Centers provides all the information you need to easily implement literacy centers in your classroom or build upon an established, balanced literacy program that will generate more meaningful reading and writing experiences. For those just beginning to use literacy centers, this guide offers clear yet comprehensive instructions, ready-to-use lesson plans and center activities, reproducible charts, and time-saving tips for seamlessly building centers into your language arts curriculum. Susan and Mellissa show you how to set up literature-based centers for reading, literature response, writing, poetry, listening, and word work that are effective and easily maintained. If you are a literacy center veteran who needs to revive and transform your centers into focused places of learning where students of all levels apply, practice, and master standards-based skills and strategies, this follow-up companion to Primary Literacy Centers is the perfect refresher course, complete with all-new lessons and activities. More Primary Literacy Centers includes whole-class lesson plans, suggested center materials and templates, organizational strategies, and other classroom-tested ideas that will save you time and help both emergent and fluent readers experience success.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Brianna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a valuable teaching resource for teachers who use literacy centres or the Daily 5 in their classrooms, to go along with other books that discuss the same topic. The lessons that connect to the various centres are often open-ended enough that they could be used again in various ways by the students to engage in effective literacy practice. Many of the "reading" lessons also fit very nicely with "The Sisters" CAFE strategies for reading, which is good for group instruction time. I enjoyed the parts about accountability during centre time, and the open-ended literature response matrix. I will be using parts of these in my classroom this year.

This book's one weakness is that it doesn't give you ideas of how to actually set up the centres - although the centres it suggests seem to be good ones. If you want a better book for that choose Debbie Diller's "Literacy Work Stations" or "The Daily Five." Overall however, this is a resource I will be consulting to add in new ideas and activities to my "centres."