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Literature Circles

Literature Circles. Britney Horton. Grade Level and Goals. Grade: 3 rd Grade Theme: Civil Rights Movement Students will be able to: Standard 3-2.2 Record 3 inferences made from informational texts. Standard 3-2.3 List 3 facts and 3 opinions discussed in group . Organization of Groups.

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Literature Circles

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  1. Literature Circles Britney Horton

  2. Grade Level and Goals Grade: 3rd Grade Theme: Civil Rights Movement Students will be able to: • Standard 3-2.2 • Record 3 inferences made from informational texts. • Standard 3-2.3 • List 3 facts and 3 opinions discussed in group

  3. Organization of Groups • Read book to whole class. • Work with the whole class to make a list of issues shown in the book. • Have students vote on a ballot the issue they want to discuss. • Teacher puts students in small groups to discuss the issue. • Group sizes should be 4-6 students • Make groups heterogeneous • Try best to assign students to the book with their topic chosen. • Students within the groups will be assigned a specific job.

  4. Student’s Jobs • Facilitator • Make certain that everyone contributes and keeps the group on task. • Recorder • Keeps notes on important thoughts expressed in the group. Write final summary. • Materials Manager • Picks up distributes, collects, turns in, or puts away materials. Manage materials in the group during group work. • Vocabulary Finder • Records unfamiliar words identified by the group. • Checker • Checks for accuracy and clarity of thinking during discussions.

  5. Schedule • Monday • Chapter One: Early Struggles • Tuesday • Chapter Two: A Movement of the People • Wednesday • Chapter Three: Confrontations • Thursday • Chapter Four: Fighting for the Ballot • Friday • Chapter Five: Days of Rage

  6. Teacher selected Looks at the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Has examples of real people that lived at that time. Students are then put in groups with a book dealing with their issue Selection of Text

  7. Early Struggles • Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1863 by Paul Erickson • Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson

  8. A Movement of the People • Little Rock Nine by Marshall Poe • Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman

  9. Confrontations • Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides : The Power of Nonviolent Resistance by Jake Miller • Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Pinkney

  10. Fighting for the Ballot • Civil Rights Movement for Kids : A History With 21 Activities by Mary Turck • Tugging String by David Greenberg

  11. Days of Rage • Malcolm X by Arnold Adoff • Panther by J. Tarika Lewis

  12. Student Response to Literature • After reading text students will discuss their topic in groups • Think about text and make inferences • Discuss their opinions on the text • Distinguish between facts and opinions in text • Recorder will record important points for whole group • Each student will write in their journal important points discussed and their opinion. • Each student will also write two unfamiliar vocabulary words in their journal and use a dictionary to record the definition.

  13. Skill or Strategy Taught • Information on the Civil Rights Movement • How to analyze text to make inferences • The difference between facts and opinions • New Vocabulary

  14. Assessment of Student Progress • Observation in groups • Checklists • Student Journals

  15. Research • http://www.litcircles.org/ • http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=19 • Putting Literature Study in Action (Handout) • A Closer Look: Literature Circles Defined (Handout) • Literacy Matters: Strategies Every Teacher Can Use. A SkyLight Guide. Fogarty, Robin. 2001 • Daily Guided Reading. Carol Simpson. Good Year Books, 1998 • The little book of writing: ideas and practical activities for independent writing for children in the foundation stage. Campbell, Helen and Featherson, Sally. Featherstone Education, 2002. • Literature circles: voice and choice in book clubs and reading groups. Daniels, Harvey. Stenhouse Publishers, 2002 • Moving forward with literature circles. Day Pollack, Jeni and McLellan, Janet. Scholastic Inc. 2002 • Talk about books! Knowles, Elizabeth and Smith, Martha. Greenwood Publishing Group 2003 • Guided Reading: Making It Work. Schulman, Mary and Payne, Carleen. Scholastic Inc. 2000

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