Struggling readers become successful readers when they actively participate in classroom-proven literacy centers. Created especially for middle school, these 40 ready-to-go centers with directions and reproducibles engage students for practicing main idea, cause and effect, compare and contrast, vocabulary in context, sequence of events, literature terms, fact and opinion, author's purpose, reference and research, and summarizing. With bonus pre-test skill set, rubrics, expectations, materials, cross-index, and strategies.