[LIT] centers

[Heather Poland]

I teach an English Support class. The kids have me for that and regular
English. I decided that this year I am going to have some sort of center
activities set up so that I can work with small groups. I wanted to find out
if any of you do this, and what activities you have? I have somewhat of an
idea, but nothing firm yet. I know I want 1 to be a vocabulary center where
I think I will give them 5 words a week. I want to do roots and
prefixes/suffixes first. But not sure what activities. I think I also want
reading with some sort of activity, maybe a graphic organizer, I'm not sure.
What do you do?
I will probably only have 2 different centers a day since we only have 55
min. classes.


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