| What is a Literacy Center?
A literacy center is a place or activity that:
Invites students to practice and apply strategies that have
been taught and modeled in shared and guided literacy lessons
Promotes reading, writing, speaking and viewing
Allows students to manipulate language in both oral and written
form
Engages the learner through interaction
Exposes students to a variety of text
Provides open-ended activities for students
Enables the teacher to assess and evaluate the students'
use of literacy strategies
Literacy Centers are an important element of a successful
balanced literacy program. But literacy centers cannot "teach" students.
They provide opportunities for practice and extension of skills and strategies
taught in whole and small group. Instruction is ongoing and meaningful
in the context of balanced literacy. |
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