Internet Competency

Rationale: Over the course of this semester, I have performed many searches on the topic of book clubs for children and have become familiar with many of the websites on this topic. For the Internet competency, I decided to search for literature circles, a version of a book club that has a base in literacy research. Literature circles have been implemented in schools across the country; even I have used this method in my own fourth grade classroom. The research on and guidelines for using literature circles make starting book clubs in an elementary school, which is my ultimate goal as a librarian, a much easier process. For this reason, I selected the website for the Literature Circles Resource Center developed by the College of Education at Seattle University as a pertinent resource on this topic. This website provides a plethora of information and resources to help classroom teachers and librarians to implement literature circles in their own schools. The Literature Circles Resource Center website includes everything from printable handouts to use with children to criteria for selecting books and has resources for early elementary school through middle school.

Search Engine Used: To locate this website, I used the LYCOS search engine. A discussion of the actual search that produced this result can be viewed at the following link.

Citation: Schlick Noe, K.L. (2009). Literature Circles Resource Center. Retrieved from http://www.litcircles.org/