Early on in my career I read her books and she transformed the way centers were done in my classroom. Debbie is all about student led centers and independent activities for students. Once students are familiar with these stations you as the teacher are able to work and lead small group interventions without interruption.
My favorite of her books is Practice with Purpose Literacy Work Stations for Grades 3-6. I have literally ripped pages out of this book and refer to this book before teaching each year. Debbie's ideas are simple. If you teach literacy stations to your whole class and they became very familiar with activities, they will be able to do these activities independently without you!
Debbie just published a new book in February. It is titled Growing Independent Learners From Literacy Standards to Stations K-3. I just ordered the book on amazon and will have a review for you soon.
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