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1/2/2008 - Judson Education class conducts "Literature Circles" for local elementary students
Judson College education professor Dr. Suzanne Stringer worked this fall in Lynda Brewer’s fourth and fifth grade class at Marion Academy to create literature circles which are small reading discussion groups much like an Oprah Book Club. Students were initially taught how literature circles work. They learned how to create good open-ended questions about what they were reading, how to select passages from the text that might be of interest to readers and how to summarize their reading. Once this was accomplished students formed their own literature circle groups based on books they chose. Then, on December 7, students from Stringer’s elementary education reading classes took over the class. Judson students decided how many pages they would read each day in order to finish their book in the time allotted. Then they read selected portions of text and chose questions and passages to discuss in the small groups. As a culmination to learning about literature circles, the Judson students planned a morning of “mystery” activities for the class on the college campus. Marion Academy students listened to a Hardy Boy’s story, participated in creative art activities, baked “mystery” cupcakes, played a reading board game about mysteries and worked in the computer lab researching the Hardy Boys. Literature Circles aid in students’ building reading comprehension by teaching them the skills good readers use, allowing them to select books of interest, decide what they want to discuss about their reading and selecting their own questions to guide their discussion groups.
Article courtesy of Judson College Education Department |
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