LITERACY ACTIVITIES AND CENTERS
 Balancing Literacy: A
Balanced Approach to Reading and Writing Instruction by Caroline A.
Coleman. Creative Teaching Press, 2001. 128 pages. Are you wondering what a
balanced literature program contains? Or how you incorporate literacy activities
into your already busy school day? Just what types of activities are right for
your class? This book will help you find answers to these questions. It provides
an overview of each component of literary: guided reading and writing;
independent reading and writing; modeled reading and writing; shared reading and
writing; and interactive writing. You will also learn how to implement these
components with literature circles, reader's and writer's workshops, and
literacy centers.
This book will help you to access students' needs, customize an
appropriate language arts program, and balance out your literacy program. For
grades 3-5. BTH-2499. $13.49-D
Bookmaking
Bonanza: Creative Bookmaking Ideas to Motivate Beginning Readers and Writers
by Kimberly Jordana and Kim Adsit. Creative Teaching Press, 2004. Children
love stories-especially those they write themselves.
Bookmaking Bonanza includes more than
50 research-based, classroom-tested bookmaking activities that expand writing
time into a literacy adventure! Students will transform empty cereal boxes,
paper napkins, cardboard tubes, and other household objects into books that
explore the five critical areas of balanced reading instruction. They will
practice one-to-one correspondence, left-to-right orientation, top-to-bottom
orientation, letter formation, using picture clues, and chunking. They will also
explore varied literacy concepts such as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, rhyme, and
sentence structure. 80 pages. BTH-5139. $12.59-D
Build-a Sentence: Hands-on Literacy Center Activities by Majella
Maas. Creative Teaching press, 2007. The activities in this book move students
from the ability to read words to the ability to manipulate words into concrete,
meaningful, and readable sentences. Includes full-color word cards,
sentence-building mats, and reproducible activities to extend student earning.
56 pages. Grades K-1. BTH-5479. $10.79-D
Build-a Story: Hands-on Literacy Center Activities by Emily Gamis.
Creative Teaching press, 2007. Through the interactive, hands-on activities in
this book, students use a variety of strategies to read sentences and sequence
them into short stories. Includes sentence cards, picture cards, story-building
mats, and activities to extend student learning. 56 pages. Grades 1-2. BTH-5480.
$10.79-D
Build-a Word: Hands-on Literacy Center Activities by Emily Gamis.
Creative Teaching press, 2007. The interactive, hands-on activities in this book
focus on two primary spelling patterns: consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) and
consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel (CVCV). Includes full-color letter cards and
picture cards, word-building mats, and reproducible activities to extend student
learning. 56 pages. Grades K-1. BTH-5481. $10.79-D
 Building Literacy
Skills Through Art for grades Pre K - 1 by Jennifer Dorval. Teacher
Created Materials. 208 pages. Reproducible activities are organized by
objectives:
Letter Recognition
Classifying Skills
Recognizing Rhymes
Building Math Skills and Vocabulary
Expressing Feelings
Storytelling
Word Recognition
Story Recall
Motor Coordination
Each activity has a link to literacy, a materials list, and art
project instructions. At the end of the book you will find an Early Childhood
Literacy Checklist, reproducible reward bookmarks, a reading record sheet for
students, and an illustrated Materials Glossary accompanied by a Materials
Index. BTH-2987. $12.99*
Early Childhood Centers. Grades PreK - K
Early
Learning Skill Cards: Titles in this series are ideal for early learning, bilingual,
ELL, or ESL instruction. Each 8.5 x 11 card contains four full-color pictures
with perforations for separating them into four 4.25" x 3.5" separate cards. On
the back of each full-color card is a blank and white reproducible image of the
picture and its name in English and Spanish, A teacher guide is included in each
package. PreK-2. Available in eight different subject titles. Follow title link
for details
 From the Page to the
Stage: Enhancing Literacy Through Puppetry, Drama, and Retelling by Mary
Beth Barr. A Rigby Press publication for teachers of grades K-3. The author
explains why drama is important in the development of oral language skills and
how to incorporate its use into the curriculum you must teach anyway. She says:
"..role-playing, drama, puppetry, and storytelling will not take away from what
you teach. Instead they will provide the tools with which to teach the concepts
you are already required to present. The material will stay with your students
longer and will be more fun for all involved." (p. 14)
This book covers basic puppetry techniques, making simple
and inexpensive puppets, and making puppet theaters. It also contains
finger plays and action rhymes, using drama to support guided reading, and
scripts and fun recipes for popular fairy tales. Assessment pages are included,
and there are also references and suggestions for further reading. Portions
intended for classroom use are reproducible. 144 pages. BTH-1336.
$13.46-D
Flipping Over Making Words Series. Teacher Created
Resources, 2007. These are great for teaching emergent readers how
to make words just by flipping pages in a flip book! Each Flip book is
accompanied by a word list and several activity ideas for teachers and a variety
of reproducible student handouts. Books are available for grades K-3.
Flipping
Over Making Words Grade K
by Jessica M. Dubin Kissel. Topics in this
book include short vowels, vowel switching, long vowels, and word patterns. 176
pages. BTH-4142. $16.19-D
Flipping
Over Making Words Grade
1 by Jessica M. Dubin Kissel.
Topics in this book include short and long vowels, letter blends, double vowels,
R-controlled words, digraphs, silent letters, and common endings. 176 pages.
BTH-4143. $16.19-D
Flipping
Over Making Words Grade 2 by Jessica M. Dubin Kissel. Topics in this
book include short and long vowels, letter blends, prefixes, suffixes,
silent letters, disappearing letters, and double letters. 176 pages. BTH-4144.
$16.19-D
Flipping Over Making Words Grade 3 by Jessica M. Dubin Kissel.
Topics in this book include Silent letters, letter blends, digraphs,
irregular word endings, compound words, contractions, common suffixes, and sight
words. 176 pages. BTH-4145. $16.19-D
Full-Color Literacy Activities Series: The books in this
series are designed for busy teachers of young students in grades 1-2.
They provide easy-to-implement hands-on activities which require little or no
preparation, in full color, and ready to use. Answers are provided. Each book is
$17.99-D
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Math Literacy
Activities
by Lorin Klistoff. The hands-on developmentally appropriate
activities are built around the latest math standards and will provide students
with fun-filled learning experiences that support the following areas of math:
shapes, patterns, numbers, time, operations, fractions, word problems,
money, charts and graphs, and measurement. 176 pages. BTH-1437. $17.99-D
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Language Arts
Literacy Activities by Lorin Klistoff. Busy first and second grade
teachers will appreciate the convenience of these colorful, fun-filled,
ready-to-use learning activities that are based on the latest language arts
standards. This book covers beginning sounds, middle sounds, ending sounds,
short vowels, long vowels, word families, compound words, contractions,
antonyms, synonyms, parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization,
friendly-letter format, comprehension, sequencing events, sentence order, and
more. 176 pages. BTH-1439. $17.99-D
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Science Literacy
Activities by Lorin Klistoff. Busy teachers will love these
hands-on developmentally appropriate activities which are built around the
latest science standards. These colorful, ready-to-use activities will
provide students with fun-filled learning experiences that support the following
areas of science: five senses; living and non-living things; plants and animals;
life cycles; human body; water cycle; seasons; fossils; sink and float;
dinosaurs; natural resources; solids, liquids and gases; and magnets. 176
pages.
BTH-1438. $17.99-D
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 Social Studies
Literacy Activities by Lorin Klistoff. Busy first and second grade
teachers will appreciate the convenience of these colorful, fun-filled,
ready-to-use learning activities that are based on the latest social studies
standards. This book covers national holidays; historical buildings, statues,
monuments and symbols; timelines; historical stories; key figures in history;
now and long ago; importance of rules; political system of the U.S.;
transportation; origin of food; interdependence of people; and use of a map.
176 pages. BTH-1436. $17.99-D
Literacy
Assessment in the Early Grades: Tips, Tools, and Evaluation Strategies
by Laura Townsend. Rigby Press. 176 pages. For grades K-3. This book will supply
all busy primary teachers need to make the most of daily observations and
assessment opportunities. It has tips for planning and managing assessments,
blackline master forms, and strategies for evaluating your assessments. It
includes eleven reproducible benchmark books for use with oral reading records
as well as the following assessment tools: parent surveys; interest inventories;
anecdotal records; alphabet knowledge surveys; reading checklists; oral reading
records for the included benchmark books; retelling forms; reading conference
forms; comprehension checklists; writing checklists and self-assessments; and
writing conference forms. BTH-1221. $16.19-D
Literacy Centers: What Your Other Kids Do During Guided-Reading Groups
by Irene Allen and Susan Peery. Creative Teaching Press, 2000. How do you work
one-on-one with a student while the rest of the class learns independently? How
do you make guided reading possible while keeping the rest of the class
"on-task"? How do you provide your students with continuing practice in basic
skills to reach each student? How do you integrate the content areas in a way
that is fun for your students? Just use this book! It features 19 centers
designed for intermediate students and their teachers. These classroom-tested,
teacher-approved centers are simple to design, easy to set up, and endlessly
adaptable. This book also provides suggestions for center management and
assessment, center activities from a variety of learning modalities, lists of
helpful resources-such as a list of safe, fun, and educational Web sites for
your Computer Center- and reproducibles to minimize preparation and planning
time. 144 pages. For grades 3-5. BTH-5478. $17.99-D
Literacy Through
Dramatic Play: Stories, Songs, and Rhymes with Reproducible Hats by
Diane Dzamtovski. Rigby Press, © 2003. For Pre K-2. Reproducible for classroom
use. 96 pages. The stories, songs, and rhymes in this resource have simple plots
and memorable characters from a variety of cultures. Patterns for hats and other
props are included. Selections for dramatic play are The Bear and the Turtle;
The Bear Went Over the Mountain; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Little Bear,
Little Bear (a Spanish Counting Rhyme); Itsy Bitsy Spider; Little Miss Muffet;
Anansi and Turtle; There Was a Little Turtle; Little Fish ( A Spanish Nursery
Rhyme); The Little Kittens; Hey Diddle Diddle; The Ugly Duckling; The Crab and
its Mother; The Lion and the Mouse; Old MacDonald; The Cow on the Mountain (A
Chinese Nursery Rhyme). BTH-2574. $11.66-D
 Take
It to Your Seat Literacy Centers K-1: Sacks Full of Learning: an
Evan-Moor publication. This has 12 self-contained centers that are easy to make.
There are full-color patterns and task cards that can be used with individuals
or small groups. Students can practice reading and writing in the following
areas: visual discrimination, color words, word families, rhyming words, initial
and final consonants, and beginning writing. For more details and a chance to
browse the book on line, follow the link in the title. BTH-2712. $22.49-D
 Take
it to Your Seat Literacy Centers 3-4: Folders Full of Learning, an
Evan-Moor publication. This has 16 self-contained centers that are easy to make.
There are full-color patterns and task cards that can be used with individuals
or small groups. Students can practice the following language skills: analogies,
prefixes and suffixes, synonyms and antonyms, main idea, parts of speech, and
descriptive paragraphs. For more details and a chance to browse the book
on line, follow the link in the title. BTH-761. $22.49-D
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