Ch 10- Tompkins

I found the chart on page 350 of the Tompkins book to be very informative. I find that interns and teachers speak a lot on literacy centers, but I have never actually seen them implemented. I had heard of how they work and what happens but I have never known the extent of what they do. This chart showed me various options of how to teach many different corresponding parts of literacy. No matter what it was that one would want their students to learn, this chart showed an example for it. In every example I can see how students would become active in the activity. I found that puppets could be very fun for students to help reenact the plots of stories or books they’ve read. I feel that some of these activities would need to be monitored or else they could create disruptions of learning (for example: dramatic play, puppets), however some would be great for students to work silently on their own (for example: word sorts, listening).
With these literacy centers I can really imagine how they would work and how students would react in them. Depending on your classroom and the students in them, I can imagine that some would work better than others. In the classroom I am currently in I would envision that they would master the listening, yet fail miserably with the puppets. My students are not yet mature enough to play with puppets while being productive. Students would need scaffolding and monitoring to work up to puppets.