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

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