Literature Circles – Set this up!
Welcome to the rest of the year!!!
Literature Circles are about
- digging deep into the text you are working with
- talking about the text
- high level reading skills
- getting everyone to participate
- questioning techniques
- higher order thinking
- discussion skills
Literature Circles are not about
- teaching people how to read
- low level reading skills
- writing skills
- You have to know how to read for this to work. It is not a reading strategy; it’s a discussion strategy
Resources for Literature Circles can be found at the following resources:
General Resources
http://www.npatterson.net/reading.html
http://www.literaturecircles.com/
http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?external=http://home.att.net/~teaching/litcircl/circle.pdf&original=http://www.proteacher.com/070172.shtml&title=How%20to%20Lead%20a%20Literature%20Circle
http://eduscapes.com/ladders/themes/circles.htm
http://www.litcircles.org/
http://home.att.net/~teaching/litcircles.htm
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr259.shtml
http://www.branford.k12.ct.us/user/site/staff/cmiller/LitCircles.htm
http://www.allamericareads.org/lessonplan/strategies/during/litcirc1.htm
http://www.homeedsa.com/Articles/Literature%20Circles.asp
http://www.litcircles.org/Discussion/focus.html
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/classroom/class3.htm
***A Specific Plan***
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=877
POETRY (literature) Circle Resources
http://www.studyguide.org/poetry_circles.htm
http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/pleasure.html
RUBRIC(S)
http://inquiryunlimited.org/lit/litcir/litcireval1.html
http://www.litcircles.org/Discussion/focus.html
Rubrics from Patrick Miller who teaches at Algonquin Ridge E.S. Barrie, Ontario, Canada