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Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work

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I have purchased many books on "centers", and still was not successful with small group time. Most literacy center books provide cute reproducibles to produce fun ideas, but all the ideas in the world is not enough to make centers work. THIS book does! First of all, it provides practical, realistic ways to understand your expectations for literacy centers, and great ways to introduce them to the students. The supplies for these centers are not time consuming for the teacher to make, the work stations will be in line with the curriculum. Her strategies for preventing and managing center behaviors are great! She outlines some fantastic mini-lessons to both learn and enhance the literacy centers. Reproducibles are included to go along with some of the centers, as well. One important feature is that each work station has more than task in it to help keep the students interested. The centers are fun for the children, and they are reading and/or writing in them! I highly recommend this book to K-2 teachers, it has helped me very much in my 1st grade classroom!

As a literacy coach I have never seen a more comprehensive book on setting up centers (work stations) in an elementary classroom! This book covers everything: materials, introducing the work station, how to model them, solving problems, differentiation, assessment and accountability, and personal reflection. It even shows how kindergarten teachers can make their "traditional" centers more literacy-focused. A special section is also devoted to Second Language Learners. If you teach Kindergarten through 3rd grade, buy this book! You will love it!

I teach 3rd grade and started using centers last year in my classroom for the first time ever. Although my first year wasn't bad, I knew I wanted this coming school year to be much better and more organized than the last. Debbie Diller gives many great ideas and tips to manage centers and keep them fresh all year long. Although this book would be a 5 STAR book for K-2 grade teachers, I would also recommend it for 3rd grade teachers as well who are capable of using Debbie Diller's ideas given and "tweek" them to make them work for the older kids.

This book was an EASY read! Be prepared to write down many of her ideas or highlight them to implement them into your classroom!

This book is very useful in setting up my Guided Reading program. It was one of the best books that I purchased for this program. It is geared more toward the actually usage of materials than to simply theory. I needed suggestions for actual activities rather simply theory. I would recommend this book to any teacher that is starting a Guided Reading program.

A great book for teachers especially 1st year teachers. I am a 1st year preK teacher and it halped me set up my centers/stations and organize them! That was the hardest thing for me but when another teacher recommended this book it was a breeze!

I love this book. I was having a difficult time setting up "centers" in my classroom, and this pointed me in the right direction. It is a necessary addition to any teacher's library.

This is an outstanding, insightful book for anyone interested in reaching all learners in their classroom. The ideas presented in the book do not require a lot of teacher preparation and can be established in your classroom with little change. The student becomes responsible for their own learning and decisions related to it rather than the teacher. It is a great book for any teacher looking for a way to reach ALL learners and multiply her teaching time.

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!

This book gives great ideas for literacy centers. The author gives examples and pictures. She also explains how to set centers up at the beginning of the year. She explains how to make literacy centers that do not have to be changed weekly. It is a great book!

I am a first year teacher, so this book really helped me to organize my center time. Now I am able to work with guided reading groups while the rest of my class is working. My Kindergarteners love doing work stations and it saves me a lot of planning time. I only need to change materials in the bins every few weeks!