Description: Student-led book clubs have become a key ingredient in well-balanced reading programs across the country, and teachers credit Harvey Daniels for showing the way with his 1994 best-seller, Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in the Student-Centered Classroom. Now Daniels returns with a thoroughly revised and expanded guide to forming, managing, and assessing these peer-led book discussion groups. Drawing on ten years of classroom experiments and innovative models from teachers nationwide, the second edition offers abundant new strategies, structures, tools, and stories that show how to launch and guide literature circle effectively. Everything from getting started to advanced variations are explored, including alternatives to Daniels's popular role sheets and flexible new guidelines for their use. The second edition features: *four different models for preparing student for literature circles, using response logs, Post-it notes, and newly-designed role sheets; *new structures for primary, intermediate, middle, and high school grades; *alternative scheduling patterns for group meetings and reading time; *new mini-lessons for training, problem solving, and book sharing; *new tools and materials for assessing and grading literature circles; *ideas for using literature circles with nonfiction texts across the curriculum; *an inventory of common management problems and solutions; *research on literature circles, including correlation with increased achievement on standardized tests; *an explanation of how literature circles match with the national standards for literacy education. Along with the voices of twenty practicing teachers, Harvey Daniels offers a wealth of practical and concrete suggestions for every aspect of book club management, proven solutions for predictable problems, and plenty of adaptable classroom materials for both teacher and student use.
Price: 12.99 USD
Location: Northampton, Pennsylvania
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Subject Area: Education, Literary Criticism
Publication Name: Literature Circle, Voice Choice in Book Clubs Reading Groups
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Item Length: 10 in
Subject: Collaborative & Team Teaching, Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, Professional Development, Children's & Young Adult Literature, General, Curricula, Books & Reading
Series: 2nd Edition
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.6 in
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Personalized: No
Author: Harvey Daniels
Level: Advanced
Features: 2nd Edition
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 19.8 Oz
Item Width: 7 in
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
