In response for the literature circle request:
> The best "stuff" I've seen lately on literature circles is through
> Fountas and Pinnell's book Teaching for Comprehension and
> Fluency. Their chapters 18, 19 and 20 - on moving into and
> engaging students in small-group discussions and book clubs - are
> fantastic. There are also some great clips of groups on the DVD
> that comes with the book. Even more exciting are the chapters and
> emphasis on preparing the students for talking about texts through
> interactive read alouds. I heard them in Kansas City in
> October. They strongly stressed that kids don't magically know
> how to talk about books. Unless we constantly grow that language
> over time in our interactive read-alouds, our modeling, and shared
> reading, literature discussions fail, or at best talk about surface
> issues. We also have to teach the social conventions of text
> talk. - great list on p. 276- 279 of the book. They suggest that
> the routines be taught in this sequence before you would every try
> book clubs or lit. circles:
Pair talk
Threesome talk
Circle talk in two pairs
I can't talk enough about the wealth of info in this book. I will
be learning from it for years.
Ann Jernigan
Literacy Coach
Webb City R-7
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