Owocki, Gretchen

Presents a comprehensive guide for teachers to help develop literacy centers for the kindergarten through third-grade classroom and contains ideas for organizing and implementing a center, establishing a set of goals, management strategies, and activity plans.

An expert in the ways young children develop literacy, Gretchen Owocki offers primary teachers just what they need for effective reading comprehension instruction.

Gretchen Owocki lets other teachers in on one of the best-kept secrets of early childhood eductioan: play is a virtural goldmine for facilitating literacy learning.

Provides teachers with a framework that enhances the existing curriculum and extends it to meet Common Core goals, and includes instructional strategies for reading literature, informational text, and foundational skills.

Provides tools and strategies for using Response to Intervention (RTI) in kindergarten through sixth-grade reading classrooms, discussing collecting and assessing data, targeted follow-up instruction, and other related topics, and offering reproducible rubrics, data charts, class checklists, and more.