Above is a picture of my pocket chart I use for Literacy centers.  Children check the board to see what literacy center they are supposed to go to after they finish with journaling.  The picture on the right is a picture of the extra cards for my literacy centers.

Literacy Centers:

Red Bins:  I have  one of those organizational bins (from Lakeshore) in my ABC center.  (I also have a larger one in my math center).  There are 4 red, 4 blue, and 4 yellow bins.  The red bins contain activities that involve Rhyming and Phonemic Awareness.  Some examples are How Many Syllables? Cards, and Compound Word Cards 

Yellow Bins:  Activities in the yellow bins involve Children's Names and Sight Words.  Some examples are Name Bottles, Bug Words, and Rainbow Writing

Blue Bins:  Activities in the blue bins involve Handwriting, Alphabetizing, and/or Upper and Lower Case matching. Some examples are: Alphabet Pointers, Workmats, Font Find, and Rainbow Alphabet

Writing Center:  My writing center includes lots of different kinds of paper, envelopes, stapled books, pens, pencils, markers, stencils, alphabet stamps, and staples.

Overhead: The overhead can be used for many different activities.  I make story pieces using my scanner and transparencies that you can use in your printer for the kids to act out.  Make transparency copies of handwriting sheets....lots of different uses...and VERY popular with the kids!

Computer Center:  The children use several different programs on the computer including KidPix, JumpStart Kindergarten, and Reader Rabbit Kindergarten.

Alphabet Bottles:  One bottle for each letter of the alphabet filled with water and objects starting with that letter.  Later in the year, the children use "Kindergarten Spelling" to write the words for everything they see.

Reading Center:  Do I really need to explain this one? :)

Listening Center:  Besides the usual tape stories I buy from scholastic, I also make my own recordings of different stories. 

Read The Room: Lots of different pointers for the kids to choose from.  They take a pointer and look for things to read around the room.  I also have Alphabet Pointers that the kids can use to find specific letters in the environment.

White Boards: I use cut up white shower board for a classroom set of white boards.  The kids use these to practice writing words/letters they know, or to draw on.

Chalkboard: Writing on the chalkboard

Write The Room:  The children take clipboards around and write words/letters they find in the room.

Pocket Chart: Various Pocket Chart activities for the kids to manipulate.  Might be sorting Rhyming words, graphing names, or putting nursery rhymes in order.

My recommendations for Books about Literacy:
Kid Writing (can only be ordered through www.wrightgroup.com )	Month by Month Reading and Writing for Kindergarten by Patricia Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall	The Teacher's Guide To Building Blocks by Patricia Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall	Ready, Set, Read by Dr. Jean Feldman
Folk & Fairy Tale Mini-Books by Liza Charlesworth	25 Science Mini-Books for Emergent Readers by Carol Pugliano-Martin	Guided Reading by Fountas & Pinnell	More Than Letters : Literacy Activities for Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade by Sally Moomaw, Brenda Hieronymus
Teaching Tunes Tape and Mini-Books Set : Basic Concepts  by Dr. Jean Feldman	Teaching Tunes Audiotape and Mini-Books Set : Early Phonics    by Dr. Jean Feldman	Getting the Most Out of Morning Message and Other Shared Writing Lessons (Grades K-2) by Carleen Dacruz Payne, Mary Browning Schulman	Beyond Morning Message (Grades K-2) by Valerie Schifferdanoff