Literature Circles

Slide 1:•Independent reading •Teacher is facilitator or guide – not the keeper of the knowledge •Small groups •Ability based

Slide 2:•Teacher selects groups – based on daily assessment records – students with common needs, are grouped together •Group size – up to 6 students • Kids are presented with book choices – maybe only from 2 -3 books, which have been carefully selected by teacher to match abilities of the groups. •Book selection can be on a theme eg. humour, friendship , sport etc. or simply great literature. •Students are introduced to the various roles – which they will be asked to select from each day •Students then make a commitment to cooperate by reading the set amount of pages each night.

Slide 3:• Orientation to story - Once students have chosen their book by majority vote, they spend some time orientating themselves to the book, making predictions, reading the blurb, looking at chapt