Primary Literacy Centers: Making Reading and Writing Stick! (Maupin House)

For K-3 teachers Seven easy-to-maintain centers help you work smarter, not harder, as you connect standards-based reading and writing instruction with student application of skills and strategies. Your literacy centers will become focused places of learning, keeping you free to teach small groups and minimize student interruption--and you control how to fit the centers into your day. Primary Literacy Centers: Supports the balanced literacy approach; Features 36 language arts mini-lessons with easy-to-use center connections; Correlates to NCTE/IRA National Language Arts Standards; Incorporates both fiction and nonfiction text; and Gives students time to practice and apply literacy-block skills and strategies that you teach and model &&/UL&&Here's everything you need to know to set up and manage centers in a balanced literacy framework for: Reading, Word Work, Read the Room, Listening, Research, Literature Response, Writing, and Poetry. Make literacy centers a vital part of your classroom!

Susan Nations is a literacy coach, trainer, and writing consultant in Sarasota County, Florida, working with elementary teachers to help improve literacy instruction. Susan has taught k-5 grades during her 15 yrs. as a teacher.

Mellissa Alonso is a district resource teacher for elementary reading and language arts in Hillsborough County, Florida, writing and delivering literacy training for more than 500 teachers. She received the Celebrate Literacy Award from the Hillsborough County Council of the International Reading Association.