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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.
Overview of the Lit Circle Roles You will rotate these roles each session. You must always have a Discussion Director and an Illuminator; however, the rest of the roles may be shared, mixed, or rotated out as needed. Discussion Director Your role demands that you identify the important aspects of your assigned text, and develop
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.
Literary Luminary: Your job is to locate a few special sections or quotations in the text for your group to talk over. The idea is to help people go back to some especially interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important sections of the reading and think about them more carefully. Also look for literary devices and make connections to the
Below are 16 lit circle roles organized roughly according to the level of thinking and understanding required. The first few book club roles mostly require fact recall, while the last few involve understanding the text more deeply, critical thinking and creativity.
Lit Circle Notes: Overview of the Roles Illuminator: You find passages your group would like to/should hear read aloud. These passages should be memorable, interesting, puzzling, funny, or important. Your notes should include the quotations but also why you chose them, and what you want to say about them. You can either
LITERARY LUMINARY. The Literary Luminary locates 4 sections of text to share with the group and states the reasons for choosing the selections. Possible reasons for picking a passage to be shared aloud: good dialogue. surprising.
