This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create reading, listening, computer, and poetry Literacy Centers in their own classrooms.
Literacy Centers: Getting Started
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Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose
K
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Watch Mother Goose work her magic! This lesson uses nursery rhymes to help emergent readers remember the letters and their sounds and identify word chunks.
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What's in a Name? Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word
K
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In this recurring activity, the process of choosing a helper for the day becomes a literacy activity, with the helper's name as a starting place for reading and writing.
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Spelling in Parts: Learning to Spell, Write, and Read Polysyllabic Words
3 - 5
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| Recurring Lesson
How do you spell polysyllabic? While this word may be a bit too advanced for students, they will definitely be spelling polysyllabic words using a strategy called Spelling in Parts.
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Learning Centers: From Shared to Independent Practice
K - 2
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Seven blind mice—see how they spend each day of the week in this lesson that uses the book Seven Blind Mice to guide students through shared reading, writing, and listening activities.
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Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation
K - 2
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Students improve phonemic awareness through games and chants that help them isolate beginning and ending sounds and connect them with their written symbols (graphemes).
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Student of the Day: Create Sound/Letter Understanding With Names
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Name games make learning letters fun and interactive in this lesson where students get to know more about each other as they spell out their classmates' names.