For the past couple of weeks students have been working in literature circles using one of Roald Dahl's books. Students have had to become experts on specific vocabulary words as well as the assigned reading for the week. After completing their weekly assignments, students had to complete a role for their literature group. These roles included: Discussion Director, Yacker Tracker, Super Summarizer, Creative Connector, and Quotation Quest. We will be adding Word Wizard and Artful Artist next week.
Once all members of their group finished their work, students met in their groups and held a discussion about the assigned readings. Students asked each other questions and shared their thoughts using evidence from the text.
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| This group is reading and discussing their thoughts on the book, George's Marvelous Medicine |
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| This group is discussing their thoughts on the second part of the book, James and the Giant Peach |
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| These students are sharing their thoughts on James and the Giant Peach as well as some important vocabulary words. |
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These students are reading and discussing George's Marvelous Medicine
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I really like literature circles because they are a great way to under stand the book and hear what others have to say about your opinions. Being in a discussion group to me was really fun and I enjoyed it very much.
ReplyDeleteMia- I am so glad you like participating in literature circles!
DeleteThese are great! I loved working on Roald Dahl when I taught 4th grade. We spent a lot of time working on reading BOY (Roald Dahl's autobiography) and did short novel studies on his other books. Next time we'll have to record some student discussions!
ReplyDeleteI loved the book George's Marvelous Medicine! It was very interesting and exciting at the same time. I liked discussing it. Our group was always on topic and we had really interesting things to say. I loved the idea of the literature circle.
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DeleteI am so happy that you enjoyed reading George's Marvelous Medicine! You are right, your group did a great job staying on task and had awesome discussions!
I think literature circles was a great idea!I loved finding new vocab words and finding out what they mean.
ReplyDeleteLiterature circles was very fun because we got to know each other better and we got to read the exciting book of James and the Giant Peach. I liked when we did the jobs to when we got to fill out the worksheet of our job.
ReplyDeleteI think litretaure circles was a great idea too. What was your favorite book that Roald Dahl wrote?
ReplyDeleteI loved reading James and the Giant Peach. I think my group did well letting ever body have a turn speaking and I think we did a good job staying on topic. James and the Giant Peach was a really good story to read. Did you read the book James and the Giant Peach?
ReplyDeleteI liked doing the Roald Dahl literature circles it was fun, some times we would get of topic but not all the time, other wise I had a great time with literature circles.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite authors is Roald Dahl so I enjoyed this a lot. I also liked reading James and the giant peach. I can't wait to read more of these books in the future
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