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Insightful Illuminator ‐ Your job is to choose at least four sections from your reading that you enjoyed and be able to explain why to your group. Creative Connector ‐ Your job is to find at least three connections between the book and the outside world.
Literature circles are small, peer-led discussion groups where students read and discuss a specific text, allowing them to engage with literature collaboratively.
This lesson provides a basic introduction to literature circles, a collaborative and student-centered reading strategy. Students begin by selecting a book together then are introduced to the four jobs in the Literature Circles: Discussion Director, Literary Luminary, Vocabulary Enricher, and Checker.
What Are Literature Circles? In literature circles, small groups of students gather together to discuss a piece of literature in depth. The discussion is guided by students' response to what they have read.
This qualitative research study investigated how literature circles provide an optimal differentiated learning context for high-ability (sixth-grade) readers that centered on the connection between critical pedagogy and collaborative reading of sociocultural
What is a Literature Circle? Simply, in a literature circle, students discuss a piece of literature together. Usually, this is done in small groups. Traditionally in English classes, the whole class reads one literary work together.
Literature Circle Roles. Discussion Director. creates questions to increase comprehension. asks who, what, why, when, where, how, and what if. Vocabulary Enricher. clarifies word meanings and pronunciations. uses research resources. Literary Luminary. guides oral reading for a purpose.
