Intermediate Literacy Stations: (Maupin House)

Intermediate Literacy Stations helps teachers in grades three and up move from primary centers into stations of independent investigation! Part One provides you with all the basics and classroom-tested tips for establishing and maintaining stations in your classroom: Chapter 1: Follow the reader's workshop model to help students move toward independence as they practice and apply literacy skills in six intermediate stations: Comprehension, Fluency, Listening and Speaking, Visual Literacy, Word Work, and Written Response; Chapter 2: Choose and differentiate activities that encourage the deepest level of investigation from your students; Chapter 3: Learn how to keep students moving from station to station as they take control of their own learning by using a Literacy Learning Plan that outlines their station rotations; Chapter 4: Start your stations and manage activities with a station rotation table; and Chapter 5: Use insider tips and tricks for planning lessons, keeping activities fresh and students on track and organized. Part Two has six chapters, each focusing on a suggested literacy station and offering five activities, complete with material lists, tips for setting up, step-by-step activity instructions, strategies for differentiation, and reproducibles. The appendix and resources section at the end of this book provides additional reproducibles and station management tools, and all color reproducibles are available for download off this webpage.

About the Author :
Susan Nations is an author, national literacy consultant, conference presenter and intervention teacher in the Sarasota County Public Schools. She is the co-author of Primary Literacy Centers: Making Reading and Writing STICK!, More Primary Literacy Centers, Intermediate Literacy Stations and So Much Stuff, So Little Space: Creating and Managing the Learner Centered Classroom. She has also written many teacher's guides for various educational publishers. Susan has been a classroom teacher and literacy coach with students and teachers in kindergarten through fifth grade for more than 20 years. She currently works at Southside Elementary School in the Sarasota County School System as an Assistant Principal Intern. Susan was also the Sarasota County 2004-2005 District Teacher of the Year and a finalist for the 2009 Literacy Teacher of the Year. In addition to her site-based job, Susan is often requested to speak and present at local, state, and national conferences. In recent years, she has presented for the Florida Reading Association Conference, the International Reading Association National Conference, and the Staff Development for Educators (SDE) national conferences. She also provides customized literacy training for schools and districts around the United States. Susan lives in Sarasota with her husband Don. They have five children: three adults, one in high school and one in middle school who keep them quite busy.

Review :
For teachers of grades three and up, this guide contains activities, tips, and information on setting up intermediate literacy stations for students to work on comprehension, fluency, listening and speaking, visual literacy, word work, and written response. It details how literacy stations work and how children learn using them, with five activities for each station that include instructions, materials lists, strategies for differentiation, and reproducible worksheets. Color reproducibles can be downloaded. Nations is an author, literacy consultant, and intervention teacher. Waite is a teacher who has taught regular and gifted classes for kindergarten and grades three through five. -(c)2009 Book News Inc., Portland, OR-- "(c)2009 Book News Inc" Literacy is one of the most important skills young readers will gain in their education. 'Intermediate Literacy Stations' is a guide for educators to establish workshops and stations to better teach language arts and English skills to students. With chapters on comprehension, fluency, writing, and more, 'Intermediate Literacy Stations' is of strong interest to any educator seeking to do the best they can for their students. -Midwest Book Review, August 2009-- "Midwest Book Review" This book has many useable ideas for incorporating literary stations into the middle school classroom. It focuses on comprehension, written response, fluency, listening and speaking, word work and visual literacy. Printables are provided with step-by-step instructions for creating stations. Each literacy station includes differentiation ideas for all students. -Dusti Parker, Arlington Independent School District Library Services, April 2012-- "Arlington Independent School District Library Services"