The topic of this month's meeting was the implementation of effective literacy centers. In the second and third grade the focus of literacy centers is on the Fab 4: phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The centers are not to teach new material, but to reinforce concepts that have already been taught. The centers can include the following:
- Reading Comprehension: read books at independent level; retell the story to a friend; respond to reading passages; buddy reading; listen to books on tape/CD; the use of who, what, where, why, how questions; story quests (exploring for information within the Houghton Mifflin anthology story that was read with the entire class).
- Phonics: can include word sorts and word building; computer sites to further reinforce phonics skills that were taught in class.
- Fluency: readers theater; timed fluency passages; rereading of text (guided reading, anthology story, etc.); buddy reading; Read Naturally; Dolch words; Dolch phrases.
-Vocabulary: building of high frequency vocabulary words; matching story vocabulary words, pictures, and definitions; Eduplace vocabulary games.
The teacher can also incorporate a writing center in which the children write about their reading. When students are at an appropriate reading level they can also meet in literacy circles.
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