If you don’t have a listening center, you should. Take all those scholastic book order points you have accumulated and spend them on listening center books. If you just buy the little collection each month, after a year you will have an entire listening center all based around your themes and everything.

One of the most important things to remember in centers is to make sure you are holding your kids accountable for the centers. A lot of times we let the kids have fun in centers, and we just totally forget that we need to make sure they are actually DOING the work they are supposed to do. Something as simple as this listening center can make sure they are doing their work, and if centers are supposed to be 15 minutes long and your book is only nine or ten, then you need something to keep those kids occupied for the last few minutes of the center. It is all about making sure your students are never sitting there with nothing in front of them. This is the age of TV on Demand and Internet games at the touch of their little fingertips, don’t try to fight it! Instead just plan ahead and be prepared for it by making sure that they have stuff to do during their down time.

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