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Re: Implementing Lit. Circles - Q for Laura
Posted by new teacher on 7/24/08
Hi Laura,
Could I ask you what books were read in your lit circles? Did groups
get to choose anything they wanted, or did you have 4-5 books in mind &
then set up groups based on book preferences? Had you read all the
books before? Were the books grouped by theme or any other "grouping"
quality? Did you continue with other whole-class work during lit
circles? E.G. were certain days "lit circle" days and others for whole
class work? Did you give class time for lit circle reading? Besides
questioning & discussing skills (great points to work on, by the way!)
did you have other activities or projects?
My apologies for all the questions; I'm curious how this works!
Thank you so much!
On 7/24/08, Laura wrote:
> Someone mentioned earlier in the thread Harvey Daniel's Mini-Lessons
> for Lit. Circles. This is a great resource--one that I used last year
> when trying Lit. Circles for the first time with a 10th grade honors
> class. Honestly, the most essential lesson to do with students (IMO)
> is that of teaching them how to create good discussion questions and
> follow-up questions, then requiring them to do so when they meet with
> each other. We spend two days working on this skill, with me modeling
> and them practicing. Then I ask that they try it out during meetings.
> I sat in on the meetings and took notes in addition to also asking
> them to turn in the discussion questions they came up with. It worked
> well and I saw marked improvement in their questioning/discussion
> techniques.
>
> As far as motivation goes, I didn't have much of an issue, but that was
> in an honors class. I will be trying Lit. Circles with my general
> students this year and am hoping that they will be motivated simply by
> being able to choose their books and their reading schedules.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Lit. Circles--talk to me..., 7/15/08, by GA/8.
- Re: Lit. Circles--talk to me..., 7/15/08, by in the same boat.
- Re: Lit. Circles--talk to me..., 7/15/08, by Chele/5/SoCal.
- Re: Try these links...more inside, 7/19/08, by cam.
- Re: Try these links...more inside, 7/21/08, by JGS.
- Re: Abandon literary circles , 7/21/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: Abandon literary circles , 7/21/08, by Confused.
- Re: Confused, 7/21/08, by Really? I thought Swilley was very clear + on target! nfm.
- Re: research points to the value of student based learning, 7/21/08, by cam.
- Re: research points to the value of student based learning, 7/21/08, by JGS.
- Re: Chele--Lit. Circles--talk to me..., 7/21/08, by Wanda.
- Re: Chele--Lit. Circles--talk to me... for Wanda, 7/21/08, by Chele/5/SoCal.
- Re: Implementing Lit. Circles, 7/24/08, by Laura.
- Re: Implementing Lit. Circles - Q for Laura, 7/24/08, by new teacher.
- Re: Implementing Lit. Circles - I'm not Laura, but... :D, 7/24/08, by Chele/5/SoCal.
- Re: Implementing Lit. Circles - Q for Laura, 7/25/08, by JGS.
- Re: Implementing Lit. Circles - Q for Laura, 7/25/08, by Laura.
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