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Current Literature Circle Selections
Literature Circle Roles
Connector
Your job is to find connections between the book you are reading and the outside world. This means connecting what you read with your own life, to what happens at school or in the community, to similar events at other times and places, or to other people or problems. Once you have shared your connection to this section of the book, each member of your group will also relate their own connection to the book, although they may refer to a different passage.
Illustrator
Your job is to draw some kind of a picture related to what you read in your section. It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, or stick figure scene. It can be about something that you read, something that the reading reminded you about, or an element of the story (plot, character, setting).
Presentation Plan: When the Leader invites you to participate, you may show your picture without commenting on it, and let the others in your group individually guess what your picture means. After everyone has had a turn to guess, it is your turn to tell them what your picture means, where it came from, or what it represents to you.
Travel Tracer
In a book where characters move around a lot and the scenes change frequently, it is important for everyone in your group to know where things are happening and how the setting may have changed. Even if the scenery doesn’t change much, the setting is still a very important part of the story. Your job is to track where the action takes place. Describe each setting in detail each day, either in words or with a picture map that you can show and discuss with your group. Be sure to give the page numbers.
Literary Luminary
Your job is to choose a paragraph or sentences from the book to discuss with your group. Your purpose is to help other students by spotlighting something interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important from the text. You can read parts aloud yourself, or ask another group member to read them. Include your reasons for picking the paragraphs or sections you did.Leader
In addition to choosing the reading approach for the day, your job is to write a list of questions that your group might want to discuss about this part of the book. The best questions will come from your own thoughts, feelings, and ideas about this section of the book. You also need to write your own answers to these questions.
Listener/Summarizer
Everyone is a Listener and a Summarizer every day. As a listener, it is your job to listen to the discussion of your group and your leader’s questions and instructions. As a Summarizer, it is your job to summarize the reading selection for the day. Summaries may be completed at home for homework.
Literature Circle Evaluation Procedures
Students meet with their literature circle group each day to complete assigned tasks and discuss the novel with their peers. I observe one group per day using the following discussion observation rubrics.
Literature Circle Rubric for Group Grade
Literature Rubric for Individual Grade
After observing discussion, students in the observed group then turn in their Literature Circle journals to me for assessment. The following rubric is used for assessment of each daily journal entry.
Literature Circle Daily Journal Rubric
Past Literature Circle Selections
