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Possible Classroom Procedures:
Read
'Guiding the Reading Process', by David Booth, pages 52 to 58.
Read
'Retelling, Relating, Reflecting: Beyond the 3 R's' by S. Schwartz
and M. Bone, pages 46 to 48, and 62 to 63.
Procedures for Teacher Candidates:
1. Read and understand the specifics of each role below.
2. Choose and sign up for a role.
3. Read your novel for your next meeting and come prepared to share and discuss as per your specific role.
Note: With your students, you would meet in literature circles at intervals throughout the novel.
Novel: |
Date Started: |
Date of Next Meeting with Literature Circle: |
Roles
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A Summarizer: summarizes the novel for the group (a brief retell of most important parts and issues, etc.) |
B Connector: finds connections between the ideas in the novel and the real world ....connect to your own experiences, to similar events, to similar topics, to your understandings, etc. |
C Questioner: presents puzzling questions raised in the novel for the group to consider, relating to personal response, as well as questions relating to content |
D Instigator: raises issues for the group to discuss based on specific aspects of the novel |
E Linguist: draws group's attention to interesting words in the story (notes the page number) and discusses their meaning with the group |
F Literary Critic: finds examples of effective literary techniques in passages, finds effective passages, and, conversely, passages that are problematic |
G Text Enricher: supports the text by bringing in other related stories or non-fiction articles, books by the same author, or books set in the same place or during the same time |
H Recorder: take notes of the most important points and ideas discussed to serve as a record of the literature circle meeting (you do not prepare in advance for this role since your responsibility begins at the literature circle meeting) |
Note: Role descriptions are based on those in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in the Student-Centered Classroom by Harvey Daniels, Pembroke Publishers, 1994, and in Guiding the Reading Process, by David Booth, Pembroke Publishers, 1998, page 54. |
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