Monday, December 7, 2009

The Literature Circle Roles

Every week students will be completing a different literature circle role. Students can choose whichever role they would like, but must complete all roles before choosing to revisit a past role. The roles are:

Passage Master - person who finds interesting, important, and/or difficult passages to share with the rest of the group

Word Wizard - person who keeps track of the new, interesting, difficult, or important words in the text

Connector - the person who makes connections between the text and themselves, the text and other texts, and/or the text and the real world

Questioner - the person who creates questions for their group to answer regarding the text

Illustrator - the person who summarizes the main events of the text in pictures

Once a week, students will meet with the rest of the literature circle and discuss the book. Students will share information they gathered and discuss the book as a whole. Each group will address any questions or concerns about information in the book and plan for the next reading week.

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