The Webliography of Literacy Centers
By Heather Berthoff
Literacy Centers is the topic of my webliography. I am particularly interested in this topic because I would like to implement centers in my classroom. The problem being that I have issues with giving up control in the classroom. The following websites contain resources and activities that teachers can use for literacy centers. These websites give suggestions on how to implement literacy centers, behavior management tips, and literacy center ideas.
Teaching Heart’s Learning Center Page
This website provides pictures of centers, various links about centers, and printable centers that you can use in your classroom. This site is dedicated to primary grades and I will be using it since I teach first grade. I think that this site has a lot to share and many ideas that I can branch off of. Excellent source.
Learning Centers in Our Classroom
This website pertains to Kindergarten but let’s be realistic, not all first and second graders are on grade level so this website could give some areas to help supplement during centers. However, this site does not give detail, only the broad picture of what the centers are about. I personally would not use this website.
Setting Up Your Classroom
This website would be a HUGE help in setting up your classroom for centers. It’s like reading a book called, “Setting Up Literacy Centers for Dummies.” It gives you tips for getting started, how you should arrange the centers in your classroom, how to arrange the whole-group area, and gives you ideas of the various centers you could use and what each area has to offer. This is a great website if you have no idea how to begin your literacy centers.
Literacy Centers
This website is great! It provides various centers and what each center should do and have. It gives you the materials that you need and provides directions for each center. The bottom part of the site provides idea books for literacy centers if you would like to go out and buy a book that would provide more information on literacy centers.
Literacy Centers
This website is provided by a teacher who begins by supplying the reader with how she runs her centers. She also provides us with her organization tips and what works in her classroom. This website provides pictures of the required centers and lists the optional centers. This website is mediocre; I probably wouldn’t use it much unless I needed to look at the pictures of particular centers to see how they should look.
Literacy Centers
This websiteshows the different learning centers that the kindergarten teacher uses in her classroom throughout the school year. It provides links to other literacy center resources and has great pictures. I will definitely be using this website.
Using Literacy Centers With Guided Reading
This website tells of how the teacher uses guided reading and literacy centers in her classroom. It has links for a guided reading area, literacy center stations, literacy station links, frequently asked questions, and photos. This website is very useful for giving information on various literacy centers and exactly what you can use at each station. This is a must, especially for new teachers and teachers just starting centers.
Literacy Centers
This website provides links to files that the teacher has created and she notes that not all of the files are her original work. This website is GREAT! It gives various literacy center links and for each one of the links it provides directions for the center, a hand out, the materials you might need, and the center header. Great resource!
Thematic Units and LiteracyCenters
This website provides objectives for the centers and a great centers management system. It also has links to: pictures of how the room is set up, balanced literacy, workshops, resources, freebies, and more links to “great resources” for teachers. This website is geared towards the kindergarteners but can definitely be modified to help out the rest of the primary wing!
Mrs. Meacham’s Classroom Snapshots…Literacy Corners
This website is very informative and provides a lot of information. This teacher has prepared lists of what year she began a particular center until the present and how she has modified it through the years. Her links consist of the following: literacy corners: what and how, work boards, literacy corner planning guides, anchor charts, learning logs and recording sheets, how the centers are aligned to the standards and benchmarks, clip art, signs and labels, and a professional resources link.
Literacy Centers
This website is based off of second grade, but could be modified for first and third grades as well. It provides pictures and descriptions of various literacy centers and what the students do at each center. It also has links for you to go and print some of the materials that are used at he literacy centers. Good resource to have at your fingertips.