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Goals in our Literacy Centers:
1.  To provide activities that meet the varying abilities of the students.

2.  To allow children to work at their own rate of speed.

3.  To provide a wide variety of activities for the children to complete.

4.  To include both small group activities and individual activities.

5.  To give children a chance to make their own choices.

6.  To give students the chance to work independently.

7.  To encourage children to try new things.

This is a brief description of a few of the many literacy centers that the 
children will complete each week...

Meet with the Mrs. Thrasher
   Students meet with me in groups of 3- 4 each day to work on letter/sound 
   recognition and reading.

Language Arts & ABC Games Center
   Students use teacher-made or commercially produced language arts 
   manipulatives to practice letter recognition, phonics and word            
   recognition.

Letter Sort Center
   Predetermined rules guide the letter sort (tall or short, capital or 
   lower case, etc.)

Computer Center
   The students will use Starfall as well as other educational software to 
   strengthen skills.

Listening Center
   Students will look at and listen to various books with tapes.

Electronic Games Center
   Students work on skills with electronic games such as V- Smile and Leap 
   Frog Phonics games in the classroom.

Overhead Center
   Students use clear lettered tiles, water based pens, and other materials 
   to practice stories, letters, names and words on the overhead projector.

Writing Center
   Students can choose from a variety of writing materials to practice 
   writing letters, names or words.  They may also work on writing workshop 
   stories, theme related stories and other writing activities.

Flannel Board Center
   Students use flannel board pieces to retell stories, make up stories or 
   manipulate letters to make names, words, or stories.

Sight Word Sentence Building Center
   Students will add the correct sight words in pre-made word/ rebus 
   sentences.

Chalkboard Center
   Students use the chalkboards to practice writing letters, names & words.

Big Book Center
   Students choose big books stories to reread.

Reading the Room 
   Students may choose a pointer and read the walls of the classroom.  They 
   may read the calendar, poems, labels, word wall, alphabet, pocket
   charts and any other print that may be in the classroom.

Writing the Room 
   Students will use paper on a clipboard and copy the print within the 
   classroom environment.

Magazines/ Newspapers Center
   Students may choose various magazines and newspapers to read, cut and 
   glue onto their own paper.

Dry Erase Boards 
   Students use dry erase board to practice writing letters, names & 
   words.

Alphabet Center
   Alphabet pocket chart, students fill out a chart with letter, word and 
   picture.

ABC Table Center
   Play Dough:  Students use play dough and cookie cutters to make letters, 
   words and eventually sentences.

Shaving Cream:  Students use shaving cream to write letters and words.

Stamping Center
   Students stamp pictures of familiar objects and then use the letter 
   stamps to spell the objects name.  They can also practice stamping the    
   sight words we have studied.

Theme Library Center
   As each new theme or new season comes, I will have a bookshelf in the 
   room that is full of related books.  Students are able to choose some of 
   their favorite stories to read at this center.

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