with Character Education Anna Ballard June 17 2015 Background History of book club First year mornings fourth and fifth graders Tale of Despereaux a nd Phineas McGuire Gets Slimed ID: 606611
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Book Clubs: Getting It Rightwith Character EducationAnna Ballard
June 17, 2015Slide2
Background
History of book club
First year: mornings, fourth and fifth graders,
Tale of
Despereaux
a
nd
Phineas McGuire Gets Slimed
Second year: purchase ordered books,
Chomp
Mornings and afternoons
Third year: again,
Chomp,
afternoons
Celebrations
Fourth year: GET IT RIGHTSlide3
First, What Not to Do:Three Don’ts and one Do
Don’t dictate choice
Don’t do “freestyle”
Don’t do all the work
Do require student preparationSlide4
Get It Right ClubLet kids name clubLet kids choose book
Get funding, later
Theme for club: Kindness, Habits of Mind
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Plan for First Meeting
Girls first.
Put out books, let kids rank them and I’ll tally rankings.
Will purchase books, get reimbursed later.
(Donors Choose---*(see Jed!!!!) or PO)
Harvey Daniels’ charts, let students decide if they want to have roles or just keep logs and post-its (Daniels says that the roles are to be used for “conversational emergencies: if you restrict the reader to a certain kind of cognitive
resposne
each day…you may suppose that you should be visualizing when you read.”) But real readers don’t work this way. They think about all elements of the text and use all their
congnitive
lenses, jumping around, noticing a key work, visualizing a scene, questioning a character’s motives, and so forth.”
Remember club is VOLUNTARY!!!!!Slide6
Plan for Second Meeting
Plan for behavior guidelines. (Let students list rules they’d like to follow. Discuss what would make them feel comfortable discussing the book.)
Rules should include: “It’s ok to disagree; just do it agreeably.” and give examples! “I never thought about that..” “I think you may have not have considered….” “Does anybody else have a different opinion?”
Checklist for listening in literature circles (handout)
Give out books, baggies, spiral notebooks and post-its and guidelines for use.
Decide how much to read for next week.
Introduce Habits of Mind and
The Three QuestionsSlide7
Resources
Daniels, Harvey
.
2002
.
Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in book Clubs and Reading Groups
.
Portland, Maine:
Stenhouse
Publishers.
Day,
Jeni
Pollack; Spiegel, Dixie Lee; McLellan, Janet; Brown, Valerie B.
Moving Forward with Literature Circles: How to Plan, Manage, and Evaluate Literature Circles that Deepen Understanding and Foster a Love of Reading.
2002. New York: Scholastic Books.
Hill, Bonnie Campbell, Johnson, Nancy J., and
Schlink
Noe
, Katherine L
.
1995.
Literature Circles and Response
.
Norwood, Maine: Christopher-Gordon Publishers,
Peterson, Ralph, and
Eeds
, Maryann. 1990
. Grand Conversations: Literature Groups in Action.
New York, NY: Scholastic, Inc.
Trelease
, Jim. 2001.)
The Read-Aloud Handbook
. Fifth Edition. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Spires, Elizabeth. 2002. “The Three Questions.”
New York Times (April 21.)