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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.

Product Identifiers

PublisherCapstone

ISBN-100929895762

ISBN-139780929895765

eBay Product ID (ePID)56984246

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMore Primary Literacy Centers : Making Reading and Writing Stick!

Publication Year2013

SubjectTeaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, Curricula, Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaEducation

AuthorSusan Nations, Mellissa Alonso

SeriesMaupin House Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight17.7 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2006-023633

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsWritten by literacy coach Susan Nations and assistant principal Mellissa Alonso, both of whom earned Teacher of the Year for their respective counties in 2005. More Primary Literacy Centers: Making Reading and Writing STICK! is a no-nonsense guide to building literacy centers in one's classroom, or building upon an established literacy program in order to bring more meaningful reading and writing experiences to youths in grades K-3. Written for novice to veteran literacy center organizers, administrators, and workers, More Primary Literacy Centers covers the five points of the STICK principle -- Strategy Teaching Cycle, Transition Readers from Emergent to Fluent, Interacting as a Learning Community, Conversations about Content, and Keeping the Focus. A wealth of handy teacher resources from sample student interview and center evaluation forms to daily learning logs, kid-friendly" exercise and response forms, literacy connection planner templates, and more round out this invaluable resource and teaching aid." - The Midwest Book Review, "Library Bookwatch" and "Internet Bookwatch," April 2007

Grade fromKindergarten

Target AudienceScholarly & Professional

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal372.6

Grade toThird Grade

Lc Classification NumberLb1529.U5n378 2006