Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work

By Debbie Diller

Book Overview

Ever wonder what the rest of your class should be doing while you are working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers practical suggestions in Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to classroom instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and how to keep them going throughout the year. Each chapter includes:

How to introduce each station Which materials to include at which station What to model the station as How to solve problems and differentiate How to assess while keeping students accountable Reflection questions for professional development

Materials in both English and Spanish are provided in the extensive resource section. Throughout the book the author has included photos of literacy workstations from a variety of classrooms in which she has worked to illustrate the methods discussed in the text. Literacy Work Stations is a go-to classroom resource that will help you keep all students engaged while you focus in on small groups.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571103538
• ISBN13: 9781571103536
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Great Great

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.

Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work

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!

Actually make centers WORK!!

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!

Best Center Book Ever!

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!