Book Clubs!

This week we are beginning a new Unit of Study in Reading Workshop! This Unit focuses on Book Clubs. Over the next three weeks, students will have the opportunity to lead their very own Book Clubs and will discuss topics and aspects of books that are meaningful to them. This week, students will learn and practice what a Book Club should look like (sitting in a circle, looking at the speaker, only having a book in hand), and 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).

Next, students will make a plan for their Book Club. As a group, students must decide how much they will read each day and when they will meet to discuss their book. Students will also begin to deepen their thinking about a text by using bookmarks with sentence starters to help generate new ideas to really get the book club conversations going!

Hopefully all of this rich student led discussion in school will lead to some interesting, engaging book-talks at home as well!