Empower Every Student with Proven Literacy Tools

By Katherine S. McKnight, Ph.D. and Jenny French, Ed.D


ISBN 978-0999226056
Paperback – 308 pages – 8.5” x 11” x 0.73”

60+ classroom strategies to help your students develop content knowledge while they improve their reading skills. Before-reading strategies, designed to draw out prior knowledge and provide structures for students to engage with unfamiliar or challenging text. During-reading strategies that prompt students to make connections, monitor their understanding, and actively interact with the text. After-reading strategies, to clarify meaning, extend learning, and deepen understanding of the text. Anytime strategies that prepare and empower students to engage with complex texts, practice reading fluency, and improve comprehension. The corpus of research indicates that effective grade 4-12 classroom instruction encompasses all five aspects of reading: phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. This comprehensive approach serves as a vehicle for learning from text and leveraging text to deepen academic subject study.  

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This set includes both of Dr. Katherine McKnight’s books: Literacy & Learning Centers for the Big Kids: Building Literacy Skills and Content Knowledge for Grades 4-12 (SECOND EDITION) andLiteracy & Learning Centers: Content Area and Disciplinary Literacy Tools for Grades 4-12, Volume 1. Explore the research that prompted the creation of the LLC model for big kids, and learn how to start using it in your own classroom. Then create a collaborative classroom community with great teacher-tested activities that have been specifically designed for Literacy & Learning Centers. Automatically align instruction to standards/skills based assessment, increase engagement, help students focus, and cover more content and skill development in less time. It’s everything you need - all for one low price.

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By Katherine S. McKnight, Ph.D.
Paperback – 176 pages – November 2019

Dr. Katherine McKnight has a 100% success rate in achieving academic gains with her unique, centers-based approach. Elementary schools have long used learning centers (also known as “rotations”) but middle and high school teachers have unique challenges. So Katie worked with teachers all over the country to develop collaborative learning centers designed specifically for grade 4-12 learners.

In this book readers can explore the research that prompted the creation of the LLC model for big kids, and learn how to start using it in their own classrooms. Read about the four foundational centers that are integral to the model. Find out how to set up additional centers in order to customize the LLC model for any content-area classroom. Learn to create developmentally appropriate tasks that automatically align instruction to standards/skills based assessment, increase student engagement, and allow you to cover more content and skill-development in less time. Avoid discipline problems with self-directed activities that provide the independence students crave with the guidance they need. Resources, teacher tips, and sample book lists are included.

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By Katherine S. McKnight, Ph.D.
Paperback – 169 pages – June 2019

This book is comprised of teacher-tested activities that have been specifically designed for use with Dr. Katherine McKnight's Literacy & Learning Centers – but they can be used in any classroom – even home school, learning pods, and community collaborative options. Explore sample reading lists as well as tools for reading centers, vocabulary centers, writing centers, grammar centers, and speaking & listening centers. Regardless of how you use these classroom tools, their focus is to provide students with ample opportunity to practice and develop key literacy skills. And, because content study is the ideal way to develop literacy skills, all the activities in the book are designed to work within all content areas and disciplines.

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