Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful, motivating way for students to practise important skills. The 12 centres in this downloadable PDF resource are self-contained and portable. Students can work individually or in a group. Once you’ve made the centres, they are ready to use at any time.

This downloadable PDF resource contains full-colour materials to construct 12 easy-to-make centres. Each centre also contains teacher directions and reproducible student task cards.

The activities focus on the following aspects of reading and writing:

• Visual discrimination
• Colour words
• Word families
• Positional words
• Rhyming words
• Categorisation
• Alphabetical order
• Real and make-believe
• Initial and final consonants
• Beginning writing