Chapter 13
Literature Circles
Literature circle are a literature based teaching approach that can constitute an important part of a comprehensive literacy program in K-8 classrooms. Literature circles are a structured reading activity that allows powerful, high-ordered discussion and thinking to go on around good books. Literature circle time is separate and different and special. It is a time for kids to pick, read and discuss their own books, connect with books,take responsibility as readers and group members, construct meaning together begin to debate and challenge one another.
It is a place of informal, energetic, natural conversations about books. In the circles roles are played out in an individual, daily rotating, interwoven, spontaneous and predictable pattern.
What student behaviors occur there?
*animated talk
*seriousness
*passion about novels
*notes and drawings that reflect readers' ideas
*searching and open-ended questions
*reading aloud of favorite passages
*stopping to talk about difficult and powerful words
*constant revisiting of the text
*using specific passages to prove points and settle disagreements
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