Literature Circles: The Way to Go and How to Get There

Literature Circles: The Way to Go and How to Get There

Author: Deborah Perlenfein

Publisher: Teacher Created Resources

Published: 2002-09

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0743932803

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Here are the detailed strategies teachers need to introduce and use literature circles: implementation, management, organization, and assessments. The book also includes extension activities and dozens of reproducible masters. Activities are correlated to McREL s Standards.


Literature Circles and Response

Literature Circles and Response

Author: Bonnie Campbell Hill

Publisher: Christopher-Gordon Publishers

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Alberta authorized teaching resource for English Language Arts, grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1998-


Moving Forward with Literature Circles

Moving Forward with Literature Circles

Author: Jeni Pollack Day

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780439176682

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Presents advice for teachers on making classroom book discussions successful, covering such topics as choosing books, grouping students, using writing, assessing participation and comprehension, and supporting students who struggle with reading.


Athletic Shorts

Athletic Shorts

Author: Chris Crutcher

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-09-22

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 006196834X

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These six powerful short stories chronicle bits of the lives of characters, major and minor, who have walked the rugged terrain of Chris Crutcher's earlier works. They also introduce some new and unforgettable personalities who may well be heard from again in future books. As with all Crutcher's work, these are stories about athletes, and yet they are not sport stories. They are tales of love and death, bigotry and heroism, of real people doing their best even when that best isn't very good. Crutcher's straightforward style and total honesty have earned him an admiring audience and made readers of many nonreaders.


Mini-lessons for Literature Circles

Mini-lessons for Literature Circles

Author: Harvey Daniels

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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Harvey Daniels' Literature Circles introduced tens of thousands of teachers to the power of student-led book discussions. Nancy Steineke's Reading and Writing Together showed how a teacher can nurture friendship and collaboration among young readers. Now, Daniels and Steineke team up to focus on one crucial element of the Literature Circle model; the short, teacher-directed lessons that begin, guide and follow-up every successful book club meeting. Mini-lessons are the secret to book clubs that click. Each of these forty-five short, focused, and practical lessons includes Nancy and Harvey's actual classroom language and is formatted to help busy teachers with point-by-point answers to the questions they most frequently ask. How can I: steer my students toward deeper comprehension? get kids interested in each others' ideas? make sure kids choose just-right books? help students schedule their reading and meeting time? deal with kids who don't do the reading? get kids to pay more attention to literary style and structure? help special education and ELL students to participate actively in book clubs? get kids to expand their repertoire of reading strategies? make sure groups are on-task when I'm not looking over their shoulder? introduce writing tools (including role sheets) that support student discussion'. help shy or dominating members get the right amount of "airtime?" give grades for book clubs without ruining the fun? use scientific research to justify the classroom time I spend on literature circles? Each mini-lesson spells out everything from the time and materials needed to word-by-word instructions for students. The authors even warn "what could go wrong," helping teachers to avoid predictable management problems. With abundant student examples, reproducible forms, photographs of kids in action, and recommended reading lists, Mini-lessons for Literature Circles helps you deepen student book discussions, create lifelong readers, and build a respectful classroom community.


The Circles All Around Us

The Circles All Around Us

Author: Brad Montague

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 059332319X

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The debut picture book from the creator of the viral sensation Kid President is a moving take on how we can create bigger and bigger circles of community and connections as we grow—now a New York Times bestseller! In the circles all around us, everywhere that we all go, there's a difference we can make and a love we can all show. This is the story of a circle. When we're first born, our circle is very small, but as we grow and build relationships, our circle keeps getting bigger and bigger to include family, friends, neighbors, community, and beyond. Brad Montague originally created Circles as an Instagram video adorably narrated by his kids, and now this picture book adaptation is the perfect way to start a conversation about how to expand our worlds with kindness and inclusivity—even if it seems scary or uncomfortable. This book makes an ideal new-baby, first-day-of-school, or graduation gift, or any milestone that celebrates someone's world getting bigger.


Literature Circle Guide

Literature Circle Guide

Author: Perdita Finn

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780439163620

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A guide to facilitating the discussion of the novel by Jerry Spinelli by students in grades four through eight offers suggestions for identifying themes, analyzing vocabulary, and responding to the text.