LAUNCHING LITERACY STATIONS

Literacy work stations are being embraced in many elementary schools as a way to ensure students of all ages are completing thoughtful, challenging tasks while their teachers meet with small groups of students.

Debbie Diller, author of the book Literacy Work Stations, takes you into two primary classrooms to demonstrate how to create a thriving stations program. Patty Terry's first grade students and Vicky Georgas' second graders work in stations that include a wealth of literacy tasks designed to build academic and collaborative skills across the curriculum. This three-part video series captures the teaching conversations Patty, Vicky, and Debbie have with their students in real-time as new stations are introduced, problems with existing stations are analyzed, and the match between station tasks and student needs are assessed.

Program 1: Launching Stations Debbie explains the basic principles, and then launches work stations in two classrooms�the drama station in first grade, and the science station in second grade.

Program 2: Managing Stations This program provides examples of the nitty gritty issues that emerge with work stations, and how they are handled by teachers.

Program 3: Sustaining Stations Ensuring students have interesting, engaging materials in stations and can work independently in them is an ongoing challenge for teachers.

Available as either 2 60-minute DVD discs or 3 30-minute VHS tapes. DVD extras include audio tours of the work stations in both classrooms.

Reviews Debbie Diller travels around the country helping Pre-K through sixth-grade teachers make literacy more purposeful for their students. As a national consultant, she leads workshops and helps teachers set up literacy work stations and small group instruction in their classrooms. She draws on her experience as a classroom teacher, Title I reading specialist, literacy coach, and consultant/author to teach others about sensible, realistic ways to meet the needs of all students. Debbie is also the author of Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work(Stenhouse, 2003).


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