Book Clubs

Looking for book club questions you can use with any book? Just print these question strips on card stock, and choose from these for any chapter book you read with your students! You'll spark great discussions with your kids and train them to think deeply about the books they read together. #LibraryLearners

Have your young students keep book club binders to track their learning in their small groups!

A paperless, digital response to reading resource that can be used over and over again? A reader's notebook that can be used with ANY novel? A way to use Google Classroom to help manage students' responses to reading. Yes, please!My guess is that if you are previewing this product, you have an in...

Ok, just because I've been gone from 'blogging land' doesn't mean we haven't been working hard in 4B. I've definitely been documenting a lot of what we've been doing! To start, it was clear to me that our old way of peer conferencing just wasn't working. Kids seemed to be goofing around, not really helping each other, and it was a waste of everyone's time. It frustrated me when most of my one-on-one conference time was spent managing unruly PEER conferences. I knew something had to change. I…

Hello everyone! We were back at school today after yet another day off for rotten weather. It sure is hard to have any continuity when we are gone a day or more out of every week! Our next big unit in reading involves historical fiction book clubs. Getting fourth graders to have meaningful book discussions […]

I love this for my Literature Club. Can't wait to use it.

How I have book clubs as the librarian at my K-6 elementary school.

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If you’ve ever had (or possibly you currently do have) a student who struggled with phonics even after receiving daily, systematic instruction, it’s most likely because they have not yet developed their phonemic awareness abilities. Read more

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These posters are useful to remind your students about accountable talk moves! Encourage your students to use their 'talk time' effectively with these prompts that will add a splash of colour to your room! I cut out the circles and posted them on a ribbon banner. I also use the call back "con...

Book ideas, sample questions, and a step-by-step guide on how to start a book club for your child.

roll and retell.pdf - Google Drive. We could roll the dice for book club discussions!

Do you use literature circles? I have utilized literature circles for years. Usually, I have started them in the spring once I'm finished with the basal. This year, however, I've been teaching differently. I haven't been using the basal as much and have been teaching using different methods. I use a little bit of Daily 5 mixed with a little bit of Reading Workshop. This year, I feel as if I have been "finding my way" again after so many years of traditional teaching using the basal. It's…

I really love to teach guided reading groups. It is always interesting and you really get to see how every student is unique in how they learn and process all the information. I like to see them make progress and move up reading levels and also REALLY comprehend what they are reading on another level. Amazing. I know many teachers may have struggled with this question before like I have...What do I do with those high readers? In second grade they are just not quite ready to start literature…