[LIT] centers

[sherry chamberlain]

I would be interested in ways to set up centers for 7th graders. I teach reading and would like to set up centers for skills like main idea, vocabulary, inferences etc. Any ideas would be helpful.

> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:53:49 -0700> From: hpoland at gmail.com> To: lit at literacyworkshop.org> Subject: [LIT] centers> > 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.> > > -- > - Heather> > "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of> man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments> fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out;> new races build others. But in the world of books are> volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet> live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were> written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men> centuries dead." --Clarence Day> > "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little> good evidence exists that there's any educational substance> behind the accountability and testing movement."> —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds> > "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose> funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase> funding. "> —Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate> _______________________________________________> The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org> > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org.
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