This
first-of-its kind book and CD-ROM make setting up literature circles
and using them effectively in your classroom a snap! LITERATURE CIRCLES RESOURCE GUIDE:
Teaching Suggestions, Forms, Sample Book Lists and Database with CD-ROM
Bonnie Campbell Hill, Educational Consultant
Katherine L. Schlick Noe, Seattle University
Nancy J. Johnson, Western Washington University
Here’s all the practical
support you need to make literature circles succeed in your classroom!
With the valuable resources presented in this new guide, you can get
your students to think about their books before discussions . . . save
time by using ready-made planning forms for various aspects of your
program . . . find just the right theme to use with specific groups of
kids . . . and much, much more. Included are: valuable class-room-
tested, teacher-developed guidelines and forms for Organization,
Discussion, Written Response, and Extension Projects . . . an
additional section packed with ideas for involving families in sharing
books at home . . . extensive lists of both familiar and more recent
books you can use with your students — over 2000 titles in all . . .
and a CD-ROM including the forms and teaching suggestions in the book
and a database of 2000+ annotated children’s and young adult’s
literature titles.
2001 Paperbound with CD-ROM 175pp ISBN 1-929024-23-1 (K-6)