The document outlines the roles and responsibilities of 8 different positions for a book club discussion. The Amazing Assembler is responsible for finding connections between the book and their own life or other works. The Discussion Director thinks of questions for the group to discuss the chapter. The Character Cop analyzes a character and provides evidence from the text to support their analysis. The Word Wizard collects interesting or difficult words and looks them up in the dictionary. The Summariser Sergeant summarizes the main events of the chapter. The Literacy Leader leads the discussion and keeps it moving by asking questions.

1. Amazing Assembler
•You are responsible for finding connections
between your novel and the outside world.
•You might try connecting events in the
chapter/s to your own life, other books or
stories, events at school or in the community
or similar events at other times and places.
•Draw a chain to show the number of links you
have been able to make and write a brief
description of each link to help you explain
them to your group.

2. Discussion Director
• Your job is to think of questions from the
chapter/s for your group to talk about.
• Try to ask questions to really get them thinking
about the issues.
• Open questions are better such as:
• What if…?
• Why did…?
• How would you feel if…?
• What kind of character do you think…?

3. Character Cop
• Your job is to build up a picture of the personality
of one character.
• Write or draw the character you have chosen
and list at least 4 character traits this person has
(e.g. thoughtful, cunning, adventurous, shy,
noble etc)
• For each character listed you must provide
evidence from the book to support your opinion.
This evidence can be a direct quote or a
description of events. Note the page number
where the evidence can be found.

4. Word Wizard
• Your job is to collect words which you find
difficult or interesting.
• Write down the page the word appears on.
Predict the meaning of the word by looking at
the context.
• Find the meaning in a dictionary, being careful to
check that this meaning fits the passage as
there may be more than one meaning.
• Tell your group the words you have collected
and ask them to predict meanings to see who is
closest.

5. Summariser Sergeant
• Your task is to tell the group what has
happened in the chapter/s this week.
• Don’t try to tell them everything! You
should include only the main events.
• Think of creative ways to present your
summary.
• Be prepared to discuss these events and
give your own opinion of them.

6. Literacy Leader
• Your role is to lead the discussion and make
sure everyone contributes fully.
• You should follow the schedule as closely as
possible and move the discussion on to the next
role when the group is ready or the role has
been discussed in enough detail.
• To prepare for your role you should read the
chapter in detail and think of some questions
that you could use to keep the discussion going.
• Please also think of some prediction questions
that you can ask at the end of the session.
Question the group about what they think will
happen next in the story.

7. Literacy Leader
• Your role is to lead the discussion and make
sure everyone contributes fully.
• You should follow the schedule as closely as
possible and move the discussion on to the next
role when the group is ready or the role has
been discussed in enough detail.
• To prepare for your role you should read the
chapter in detail and think of some questions
that you could use to keep the discussion going.
• Please also think of some prediction questions
that you can ask at the end of the session.
Question the group about what they think will
happen next in the story.