Intermediate Literacy Stations helps teachers in grades three and up move from primary centers into stations of independent investigation!

Part One provides you with all the basics and classroom-tested tips for establishing and maintaining stations in your classroom.

• Chapter 1: Follow the reader’s workshop model to help students move toward independence as they practice and apply literacy skills in six intermediate stations: Comprehension, Fluency, Listening and Speaking, Visual Literacy, Word Work, and Written Response.
• Chapter 2: Choose and differentiate activities that encourage the deepest level of investigation from your students.
• Chapter 3: Learn how to keep students moving from station to station as they take control of their own learning by using a Literacy Learning Plan that outlines their station rotations
• Chapter 4: Start your stations and manage activities with a station rotation table.
• Chapter 5: Use insider tips and tricks for planning lessons, keeping activities fresh and students on track and organized.

Part Two has six chapters, each focusing on a suggested literacy station and offering five activities, complete with material lists, tips for setting up, step-by-step activity instructions, strategies for differentiation, and reproducibles. The appendix and resources section at the end of this book provides additional reproducibles and station management tools, and all color reproducibles are available for download on the Maupin House website.

More Primary Literacy Centers provides all the information you need to easily implement literacy centers in your classroom or build upon an established, balanced literacy program that will generate more meaningful reading and writing experiences.
For those just beginning to use literacy centers, this guide offers clear yet comprehensive instructions, ready-to-use lesson plans and center activities, reproducible charts, and time-saving tips for seamlessly building centers into your language arts curriculum. Susan and Mellissa show you how to set up literature-based centers for reading, literature response, writing, poetry, listening, and word work that are effective and easily maintained.

Organize your stuff and maximize your space! This new resource shows you how to create a supportive learning experience by setting up clearly-defined spaces and user-friendly storage. Demonstrates ways to reduce clutter, increase teacher efficiency, and make the K-5 classroom more inviting. Ideas for the beginning of the year and for any time throughout. For seasoned educators and novice teachers
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Keep K-3 students learning independently while you teach a small-group lesson and at the same time provide quality reading and writing experiences that support national standards!  Primary Literacy Centers shows you how to connect standards-based reading and writing instruction.

Here's everything you need to know to set up and manage centers in a balanced literacy framework for Reading, Word Work, Listening, Research, Literature Response, Writing and Poetry.

These seven, easy-to-maintain centers help you smarter, not harder.  Your literacy centers become focused places of learning where students apply, practice and master standards-based skills and strategies.

Give students time to practice and apply literacy-block skills and critical reading/writing strategies that you teach and model.  Make literacy centers a vital part of your standards-based classroom!
 

"With literacy demands higher than ever before, it is critical that we give students time to practice and apply the strategies we teach.  Literacy centers provide authentic opportunities for students to practice and apply reading and writing strategies." ---Susan Nations and Mellissa Alonso