Customer Reviews:
Great Book!.......2007-09-21
This is a great book if you are trying to set up centers in your classroom. I really like these literacy stations, because these stations can last the whole year. You don't have to keep changing them! There are so so many activities your students can do at each station. The sections about differentation were very helpful.
Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work.......2007-08-13
This book was packed with wonderful ideas to get a teacher started with learning stations.
Powerful Centers.......2007-06-27
Alright, you want to differentiate your classroom instruction that really get kids involved. This powerful book will help any primary school teacher find their way with confidence in deciding which centers are most valuable, setting them up, and keeping them going. Debbie Diller is a master teacher who knows her stuff!
literacy workstations making centers work.......2007-06-08
If you need help setting up work stations or if you are in need of fresh ideas, this is the book for you. Great photos and very easy to read. I highly recommend this book.
Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work.......2007-04-01
This book is an awesome resource. I can't wait to get started.
Customer Reviews:
A Must-Have for Intermediate Grade Teachers.......2007-08-12
This book, like Diller's companion book for K-2 teachers, is a wealth of information for those teachers who recognize the importance of differentiating instruction, engaging the learner, and losing mindless worksheets that only serve the purpose of occupying the student's time while the teacher teaches small groups. Whether you are experienced with managing literacy workstations or a new convert, you will get an in-depth look at management of stations, keeping the stations meaningful and engaging throughout the year, and assessing the students' work. This book is the best I have seen for practical, easy to implement, true literacy activities. I highly recommend it for teachers and administrators of students in grades 3-6.
Literacy Work stations for Grades 3-6.......2007-07-29
I went for this book as soon as I saw it on line - there is little out there for grades 5&6 when it comes to centers. While I got some good ideas, I was disappointed overall. The examples seem to focus on the lower grades, 3rd and 4th, and it left me wanting more information and examples for older kids. I am also unclear on how the novel we might be using in class fits into this concept. One area I did find especially helpful was how to organize and get started at the beginning of the year. It eased some fears for this first time work station user.
Literacy Work Stations.......2007-06-28
Better than the "Literacy Work Stations for K-2"! Excellent and practical strategies for teaching, especially for the new teacher trying to figure it all out. A book worth having in the classroom professional library.
A Must Have for Guided Reading.......2007-06-27
This book has answered all of the questions I have had about organizing centers during my literacy block. During my reading groups, I have wanted to have centers going at the intermediate level, but have been intimidated by the amount of work involved in setting them up. The author has shared ideas in creating centers that are logical, smart, efficient, necessary and don't involve staying up until midnight each night. Too bad I didn't have this 10 years ago!
fantastic!!!.......2007-03-30
This book is full of wonderful ideas that are easy to implement. It is a great continuation of Literacy Stations for Sk to grade 2. I will use this book for a long time.
Book Description
Highly regarded and used by countless students, this effective rhetoric/handbook is ideal for writing courses that focus on the essay. The sixth edition features Langan's renowned clear writing style and a wide range of writing assignments and activities that reinforce the four essentials of good writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. College Writing Skills comes packaged with a free student CD-ROM, a free registration card for access to the Online Learning Center, and a free user's guide to help students gain the maximum benefit from the text and electronic materials.
"I long ago lost count of the number of instructors who have told me that the four bases really work. When you explain the four bases to students and make the bases really clear with a lot of activities, students get it." - John Langan.
Book Description
Make literacy centers a vital part of your standards-based teaching! Primary teachers learn how to set up, manage, and evaluate seven literacy centers that provide quality reading and writing experiences to supprt IRA/NCTE standards. Allows teachers to support whole-class actvities while working with small groups. Supports the balanced literacy approach and features language arts mini-lesssons with easy-to-use center connections. Gives students opportunities to practice and apply literacy-block skills and strategies. Includes reading, work, reading the room, listening, research, literature response, writing, and poetry.
Customer Reviews:
Primary Literacy Centers Making Reading & Writing Stick.......2007-10-19
I have read the reviews on this product. I noticed that the reviews were few and dated far in between. I have ordered several books on Literacy Centers and found them to be much too wordy in their explanation and short on ideas for students who come with no prior education experiences (from home or a pre-school program). I am a visual learner( Pictures with simple directions work best for me) and as a Kindergarten teacher ,I am often exhausted trying to make/prepare and laminate useful Centers THEN teach 26 4-5 year olds the Center activities(use and routines). What would be helpful : to read reviews from teachers who have used this book and others across a 10 month school year,ideas from those who may have had to adapt an idea to make it more successful, to find a resource where most of the ideas are doable and can benefit each child( isn't this why we do what we do ?) no matter what the State standards/Reading Writing/Literacy programs are.I've spent a lot of money on books and then had to give them away because 10% of the ideas in a book were actually doable. I don't want to order a book and not be able to use it effectively.
Literacy Centers.......2007-07-05
This book had great practical ideas for centers. I liked that it also gave good ideas about how to make centers work in your classroom. The ideas really matched our reading goals.
Primary Literacy Centers: Making Reading and Writing Stick!.......2007-06-27
If you ever wanted to know why, how, and what to get when setting up this valuable part of any classroom, THIS BOOK GIVES YOU THE ANSWERS! I have used this book for 2 years in teacher workshops and consider it a valuable resource. BUY IT!
Great Teacher Resource!.......2006-08-31
Includes all kinds of literacy center ideas and posters to make set up a breeze! Excellent resource to have available.
Excellent book.......2006-06-04
This book was teacher friendly and a great resource. It shows how to easily set up and maintain literacy centers. The actual reading is only about 45 pages, the rest of the book has resources for teachers to set up the centers.
Product Description
There are a multitude of great reasons why every primary teacher should have this book:, you don't need a special center area, the centers are easy to store for future use, you can make them ahead of time (terrific projects for parents to do), you can individualize skill practice, the centers are just plain CUTE Here are the center topics and the skills practiced: Hanger Pocket Centers, Mailbox?write a letter, Pencil?handwriting practice, Clown?write a story, Kangaroo?read a poem, Dog?categories Shoebox Centers, Birdhouse?descriptive paragraphs, Bear?support the topic sentence, Chicken?riddles, Elephant?compound words, Leaf & Caterpillar?synonyms, Flower?rhyming Folder Centers, Penguins?antonyms, Trucks?building words, Monkeys?singular & plural, Rabbit?super sentences, Trains?alphabetical order, Dogs?real or make-believe?
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful things inside!.......2006-08-25
There are so many wonderful activities for your children to do during Literacy Centers in this book. I highly recommend it for a classroom, or for a parent with a child in grades 1-3.
Much needed help for the busy teacher!.......2005-08-22
I saw this book in a workshop and had to have it! It was so easy to make the centers... I just cut out the full color peices, laminated them, and put them in the box, folder, or hanger. The games even come with a recording sheet for the students. This is a must have for independent reading centers!
Book Worm.......2005-08-02
This book is excellent. It has tonds of ideas and information for centers. If you don't have space for the centers, creating the suggested take to your seats centers is the solution. Great book!
Very good resource.......2004-04-04
This book is a great source of center material. I was able to put the pocket folder centers together in on hour (not counting laminating). The hanger centers are a little bit harder for the children to work with and take more time to put together. The shoe box centers also take more time to construct but are easily used by the children. I recommend this book. I was able to quickly add new centers to my collection. The centers are colorful and engaging. A worksheet is included on which children can record their work. I wish there was another book like this with additional centers that was strictly pocket folder centers--they are so easy to store and take up so little space. I did adapt some of the non-pocket folder centers into pocket folder centers.
Take it to Your Seat Literacy Centers.......2001-08-12
This book is a must for any teacher working with limited space in the classroom. The student actually takes the whole center to their seat because it is that portable. Each center has step by step instructions on how to assemble and even has full color pictures to add to it upon completion.
Book Description
In a recent survey, 80% of K-3 teachers considered outstanding in literacy instruction reported using literacy centers in their classrooms. Surprised? Gretchen Owocki isn't. She knows that literacy centers are an ideal tool for teachers who seek out opportunities to differentiate their instruction, and in Time for Literacy Centers, she shows you every aspect of using centers successfully.
Owocki has thought of everything you need to know to make learning centers happen, from planning to assessment to ensuring that centers help all students meet content and skills standards. Grounded in solid research, yet lively and practical enough to keep on the corner of your desk, Time for Literacy Centers offers explicit, helpful advice on teaching with literacy centers, including:
- smart suggestions for on-the-spot and preplanned differentiation through centers-including tips for working with special-needs students and English-language learners
- specific learning and teaching principles that guide and enhance center-based instruction
- literacy goals for centers that are developmentally appropriate for your students, yet flexible enough to work in grades K-3
- ideas for organizing the physical space in your classroom for one or many centers
- strategies for managing center-based instruction that help even the busiest classrooms run smoothly
- plans for more than 50 literacy centers with activities and reproducibles that are ready to roll out right away.
If you're trying literacy centers for the first time, Time for Literacy Centers gives you plenty of start-to-finish help in getting your centers up and running-and running well. If you're a center veteran, you'll uncover some nitty-gritty details that will help you provide the best individual support for your students as they develop their literacy capabilities.
Customer Reviews:
FANTASTIC!.......2006-09-17
This is an EXCELLENT resource on how to set up literacy stations in the primary grades where students are engaged in authentic reading, writing, discussing, researching, and thinking activities. No more "keep them busy" worksheets! I realized that my students will learn MUCH more when I allow them to conduct research on a topic of interest with a buddy and then choose how to present their findings to the class, or pretend to be the teacher while reading a favorite read-aloud to a small group, or engage in easy-to-create word play games. Those are just a few of the MANY ideas I gained for my 3rd grade classroom from this wonderful resource. The book also explains how to maximize your classroom space for optimum use of stations, how to make accomodations for the different learners in your classroom, how to incorporate the various subject areas into your stations, and how to gradually release responsibility for learning to your students. An EXCELLENT resource--I only wish I'd come across it sooner!
Book Description
This revised and expanded edition of Paul W. Justice's popular text provides a straightforward, accessible introduction to the basics of linguistics for education students and all non-linguistics majors, covering the essentials of phonetics, phonology, morphology, morpho-phonology, and syntax. While this overview is accessible to any student, Justice's text will be of particular use in teacher training programs, many of which now expose trainees to these topics in order to cope with rising linguistic diversity in classrooms.
Each chapter of Relevant Linguistics leads students through descriptive analysis, helps them grasp linguistic concepts, and provides them with the reference materials necessary for their own teaching. This second edition contains more exercises as well as expanded and clarified explanations of the issues discussed in the first edition. Also included are more references to areas such as the history of English and semantics.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Instructor writes excellent text.......2007-03-09
The book is easy to read, easy to understand, and has challenging exercises in Linguistics. It is well written, and if you get a chance I highly recommend taking a course in Linguistics with Justice. He is a helpful, easy to talk to instructor.
Perfect for high school teachers.......2005-07-15
Faced with the challenge of teaching a ninth grade linguistics course, I looked long and hard for books that could help me. Almost all linguistic texts are hundreds of pages long and pitched at way too complex a level. In this one, though, Paul Justice tells you exactly what you need to know, distilling but not oversimplifying the subject. The book is designed so that you can effectively teach yourself, with exercises and good examples throughout. Justice is a clear writer and explicator, revisiting important topics when appropriate, so that you see connections, and he always remembers to explain why what he's teaching you is relevant in a high school classroom. And like the best linguistics books, it's fun. My only complaint is that the on-line solutions to the exercises are only available to teachers who adopt the text for their classes. All in all, though, this book is a definite find.
Great textbook for Linguistics students.......2003-11-28
This textbook is a great source for both undergrad and grad students. No other books explain phonology, morphology, and syntax better than this one. All the chapters are carefully designed to help learners understand better. I strongly recommend this book to any students who are interested in Linguistics.
Customer Reviews:
Makes Differentiation Easy.......2007-09-11
This book gives specific and easy to use tools for independent learning centers. It's great for teachers who may be apprehensive about using centers, as well as seasoned center users.
Product Description
Literacy Centers 3?4 has everything you need for 12 folder centers to practice reading and writing skills. The skills practiced include the following: · analogies · multiple-meaning words · prefixes · suffixes · main idea and supporting details · antonyms · synonyms · combining sentences · alphabetical order
Customer Reviews:
Relevant.......2007-01-14
I wanted something relevant that students could work on while I was working with small groups - without having to spend a lot of time on my part organizing. This works well. It was time consuming at first to set up the folders (I laminated), but now that it is done there is very little time on my part required. I teach 4th grade and plan on getting the centers for 4th - 5th next year and starting students on 3-4 at the beginning of the year and switching to 4-5 during the 2nd semester. Now I want to try the one for science and the one for geography.
EASY TO MAKE.......2007-01-03
Out of many centers books I've tried, this was by far the quickest and easiest to set up. No coloring, just laminate and cut it out. I'm ordering the math centers, too. A great product I would recommend to any teacher!
Teacher Friendly.......2006-08-01
Definitely worth the money! All the time we spend as teachers, coloring, cutting out, and creating activities is done and bound in a book for us! All you have to do is cut the pieces out! Plus there's an assessment piece with each activity which allows you to check up on students who are working independently!
Good Centers for Young Minds.......2005-09-05
Literacy Centers 3-4 has wonderful independent activities that any teacher can implement during their Independent Work Time (IWT from Open Court). My students love reinforcing learned skills with fun centers.
I'm done. What can I do now?.......2005-08-15
I purchased 5 of these file folder books this summer. I was amazed to see how many of the skills fit into my grade level content expectations! I am very excited to introduce another option for students who need more to do. I have designed a poster so they can keep track of which folders they have already done. I plan to give them "extra" grades for folders completed.
Book Description
Taking Flight With OWLs examines computer technology use in writing centers. Its purpose is to move beyond anecdotal evidence for implementing computer technology in writing centers, presenting carefully considered studies that theorize the move to computer technology and examine technology use in practice.
Writing centers occupy a dynamic position at the crossroads of computers and composition, distance education, and composition theory, pulling ideas, theories, and pedagogies from each. Their continuing evolution necessarily involves increasing use of computer technology. The move to computer technology so far has occurred so rapidly that writing center staff and administration have not yet had much time or opportunity to study how and when to infuse it into their programs. The need for this collection is evident: Writing center practitioners have long discussed their roles in relation to their supporting institutions; now they are challenged to explore--even reinvent--their roles as computer technologies transform centers and institutions. In exploring varied stages of technology-infusion through field-based accounts, this volume offers readers an important and unique resource.
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Practice With Purpose: Literacy Work stations for Grades 3-6
Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades
What Are the Other Kids Doing While You Teach Small Groups?
The Daily Five: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades
Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation for All
