My primary area of interest in my future career as a librarian is implementing book discussion clubs in schools. As a fourth grade classroom teacher, I have used literature circles, which are a small-scale version of the formal book discussion groups I envision as a librarian. Using the librarything tag search option, I searched "literature circle," which produced the following tags:
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The results of this tag search led me to several popular books in children's literature. I chose Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, a book I have used in my own classroom as a literature circle selection. There is even a literature circle version of this book with discussion questions and activities to use throughout the novel study.
Upon further research, I found A Guide for Using Because of Winn-Dixie in the Classroom, a book published by Teacher Created Resources, which gives even more discussion questions and activities that could be easily used to develop an exciting book discussion club study for elementary school students. This publisher has many A Guide for Using in the Classroom books for all reading levels. These resources will be very helpful in developing a successful elementary school book club.
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