[LIT] centers

[May Dartez]

There's a book by Debbie Diller, Practice With Purpose: Literacy Work  
Stations for grades 3-6.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1571103953/sr=8-2/qid=1154176894/ 
ref=pd_bbs_2/102-3494159-9290501?ie=UTF8

I previewed it when it was online at Stenhouse, and there was a ton of  
great ideas in there! Don't forget, though, that you want work in  
stations to include as much authentic reading and writing as possible.  
In the most successful classrooms, most of students' time is spent  
doing these two things. This is especially important today, as today's  
children spend so little time reading and writing at home.

May Dartez/6th/GA

"You don't have to burn a book to get students to read it. Just get  
people to stop reading it."

								---Ray Bradbury



> Sherry: 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.
>