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The Complete Guide to Classroom Centers: Hundreds of Ideas that Really Work by Linda Holliman. Creative Teaching Press, 1996. 143 pages. Spiral binding for easy use.  For grades K-3. The purpose of this book is to validate all teachers who use learning centers, whether they are must beginning to use them or whether they've been using them for years. This book is a reference resource for taking the next step, no matter where you are. The author explains why and how to use centers, where to put them and what to put in them. She explains how to plan them and how to develop appropriate activities, get materials to use, explain to students how to use the centers, how to schedule center time, how to monitor what students do in the centers, and much more. Following this general advice, she then gives some very specific ideas for centers in the following subjects: writing, listening, reading, poetry, math, art, social studies, research, science, computer, K/1 theme center: The Farm, 2/3 theme center: The Ocean, and more. At the end of the book are reproducible materials to use with centers. BTH-2494. $17.99-D

 

EMC-789.gif (12503 bytes) Hands-On Thinking Activities -- Centers Through the Year, for grades 1-3. Celebrate each season with 8-10 fun-filled, hands-on centers (36 in all) that allow students to practice logic and critical/ creative thinking skills. The book provided complete teacher directions for setting up the centers, ready-to-use color center signs and display items, and reproducible student forms. 192 pages in full color. BTH-920 $17.99-D.

 

EMC-788.gif (16107 bytes) Literacy Centers -- Take it to Your Seat, for grades 1-3. An Evan-Moor publication. Students can pick up these 17 self-contained centers and take them anywhere to use. The storage system is built in -- activities are in a hanging pocket, a shoebox, or a folder. Step-by-step instructions for making and using each center are included, and the full-color cut-outs will attract the students. 192 pages. BTH-759. $22.49-D

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Theme Centers for Dramatic Play, an Edupress publication. Provides inventive ideas and developmental activities for young children in 21 different thematic play-and -learn centers to build on a budget. 304 pages. EP-106. $22.46-D

 

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