Components of a Literacy Center
Centers
Theories and Theorists
Collaboration
100
Identifies the center
What is a sign?
100
Students write or illustrate books
What is a Book Making Center?
100
Wrote The Literacy Center: Contexts for Reading and Writing
Who is L. M. Morrow?
100
School specialist on books
Who is the librarian?
200
Can be followed independently and are easily seen
What are directions?
200
Students can read or write mysteries
What is a Mystery Center?
200
Recommends 500 different books in each classroom
Who is Richard Allington?
200
Develops management system for Literacy Centers
Who are teachers?
300
Displayed in a way to grab students' interest
What are books?
300
Changes according to what is being studied
What is a Genre Center?
300
Suggested that "Teaching is less about what the teacher does than about what the teacher gets the students to do."
Who is David Perkins?
300
Monitors efforts and supports teachers as they implement literacy centers
Who is the principal?
400
Shows that a center has been completed
What is an accountability measure?
400
Includes word sorts, acrostics, and word riddles
What is a Vocabulary Center?
400
Suggest "Word Work," "Reading Around the Room" and "Buddy Reading" Literacy Centers
Who are Fountas and Pinnell?
400
An opportumity to introduce centers and to share theory
What is Professional Development?
500
Connects center to standards
What is an objective or purpose?
500
Manage the process so that children can work independently
What are Workboards?
500
Basic ideas for transitioning from a teacher-directed classroom to one that is more child-centered
Who are Patton and Mercer?
500
In charge of buying quality materials and overseeing distribution
Who is the librarian?
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