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Literacy Centers

Literacy Centers. Quickwrite. What do you know about literacy centers/learning centers? How have you seen them implemented in the classrooms in which you have been observing? . Literacy Centers. create a literate environment and invite children to use literacy.

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Literacy Centers

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  1. Literacy Centers

  2. Quickwrite • What do you know about literacy centers/learning centers? • How have you seen them implemented in the classrooms in which you have been observing?

  3. Literacy Centers • create a literate environment and invite children to use literacy. • encourage children to participate in a variety of meaningful and functional literacy activities which show students how literacy relates to their everyday lives.

  4. Literacy Centers • help with language growth as they allow children to expand their vocabularies and to elaborate on the meanings of their words and actions through play and discussions. • Provide opportunities to problem solve in meaningful ways. Children can engage in problem solving as they build a skyscraper or an airport,work through social dilemmas, or construct a game with rules. • Children can apply what they have learned in class to what they do during play.

  5. Literacy centers provide students with • Social experiences • Language experiences • Immersion experiences • Practice experiences • Choice experiences • Open-ended experiences

  6. Goals for literacy Center • To give children a chance to make their own choices • To allow children to work at their own rate • To provide a wide variety of activities for children • To include both small group and individual activities • To provide activities that meet the varying abilities of the students • To encourage children to try new things

  7. Some possible centers • Writing Center Magnet Center • Table or writing surface - magnetic surface • Markers - refrigerator/letter magnets • Pencils - copies of text or student names • Stamps (ABC, rubber) • Stickers • Envelopes • Paper of all kinds Book Center • Stencils - pillows • Play dough or clay - books • Finger paints - book buddies • Pipe cleaners - pointers • Sponges • Paint brush

  8. Other ideas • Pocket chart center • Rubber stamp center • Computer center • Game center • Block center • Puzzle center • Listening center • Science center (or any other content area) • Dramatic play center • Book centers

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