Book Clubs!

We have begun a new unit of study in Reading Workshop: Book Clubs. Over the next three weeks students will have the opportunity to lead their very own book club and discuss topics that are meaningful to them. So far this week students have learned and practiced what a book club should look like (sitting in a circle, looking at the speaker, only having a book in hand), in addition, students will be discussing what a book club should sound like (one voice at a time, everyone has a chance to speak, adding on to each other’s thinking, addressing classmates using their name). Tomorrow students will be making a plan for their book club. As a group students will be discussing how much they will read each day and when they will meet to discuss their book. On Friday, students will learn how they can deepen their thinking of the text by using bookmarks (with sentence starters) to help generate post-it notes which will help get the book club conversation started. Students have really been enjoying their time with their book club members this week.