How can you support all learners in a literacy classroom?

We have been talking a lot about centers lately and how they can help you teach effectively. In today's education settings many schools are working on budgets for classrooms that aren't cuttting it. Teachers often buy their own supplies and teachers are lucky if they have an aide for an hour each day. Teachers are also spread thin. In some towns teachers are teaching two shifts of kindergarten and have classes with twenty-five to thirty students. How does this have anything to do with how you can support children in literecy classrooms? Centers can be a good way to have children learn and help the teacher teach without the pressure of not having help in the classroom and spreading themselves out in an over crowded class. Having students work in social centers that promote both areas of literacy and communication all students learn from each other. Making up the groups that go from center to center with each other is very important. It should involve children of all levels. No group should be composed of students all from one level. The higher reading/writing level students will learn more as they help their less advanced counterparts. When the lower level students struggle they can learn from their peers. They see their friends doing it and they will want to do it too. The more advanced children will be re-enforced with their subject as they go over what they have learned with the teacher in the class previous to the center time.
If a school can afford computers or I-Pads they can also be used in the classroom. I know that I had mentioned earlier about classes being cash poor but when a class does have money it does help. It was my neighbor's fifth birthday last week and I brought in cupcakes for her class. When I came into the class the kids were using I-Pads. The neat thing about the program that they were using was made to keep up with the pace of the student alone and not the whole class. Slower students got more time in the areas that they needed help in and the other students could progress further. If schools can afford it technology can help a lot in the reading, writing, and phonics areas.