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EXTENDING BOOK CLUBS. Why Book Clubs?. To learn to read well, all students need to read thought-provoking, age-appropriate books. They also need to respond thoughtfully to books by discussing and writing what they read. Reading directly affects student achievement.
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Why Book Clubs? • To learn to read well, all students need to read thought-provoking, age-appropriate books. They also need to respond thoughtfully to books by discussing and writing what they read. • Reading directly affects student achievement. • We are Media Specialists, reading is what we do! • Raphael, Taffy E., Susan Florio-Ruane, and MariAnne George. "Book Club Plus: A Conceptual Framework to Organize Literacy Instruction." Language Arts 79.2 (November 2001): 159-168.
How do I fit it in? • Make it part of your RBES. • Pick books from the past Reader Rally list since you already have multiple copies. Make a plan for the activities you want to do with the books. • When planning the activities think of alternative ways to enrich the book clubs.
How do I fit it in? • Block off time in your schedule to meet with your book club. • Pick a teacher who is flexible and easy to work with.
Students watch book trailers or listen to book talks to select their books.
Discussion Questions • Students are given 2 weeks to read the book they choose. • Students discuss both the notes they wrote as well as questions I prepare. • Students discuss the book twice. Once when they are half way through the book and again when they have finished the book.
Literary Focus Activities • During some of the books we also focus on an additional literary concept in addition to the discussion questions or journal responses. • Character Traits • Setting
Journal Responses • This is in addition to the classroom discussions and is written in their reading journal. • One journal response is completed for each book. They have a choice of two journal responses. They write their responses as homework.
Journal Responses • Their journal responses counts as a grade for them for their classroom teacher. • Journal responses allow the students to think deeper about the book they read.
Edmodo Blog • They type their responses in Word and then copy and paste them into www.edmodo.com • The blog also houses surveys/polls about their books. • It has links to author videos. • It also has links to their • completed projects.
Enrichment Assignments • Author Study using Glogster • Book Reviews using Animoto • Still to Come • Readers Theater (rewrite a scene to act out) • Battle of the Books competition
Author Study with Glogster EDU http://samolo.edu.glogster.com/dashboard/ • Cumulate reading Haddix books by doing an author study. • Provide students with a rubric, planning sheet, and checklist for what is required. • Set up accounts on Glogster. I chose the • single license for $11.99 a month since I only • needed 3 months access.
Student responses to Glogster http://gwinoakspageturners.weebly.com/glogster.html
Animoto • Highlight key moments in books with pictures, video, music, and text. • Goal is to make a book trailer to entice others to read the book. • You can register for a free educator account and then register for multiple Gmail accounts to divide up access.
