Handout

Literature Circles Hand Out

What to use for a Culminating Activity and Assessment

Now we are nearing the end of our look into Lit circles we need to talk about everybody’s favourite topic…Assessment. Before we get to that we are going to look at some culminating activities to conclude a lit circles unit. The majority of this information is from Faye Brownlie’s book Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses: A […]

Assignments and Lit Circles

As I continue to dissect Faye Brownlie’s book Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses: A Unique Approach to Literature Circles, I have started to look at what assignments should people do when doing lit circles. If you are wondering how to set up lit circles, check out my earlier blogs. Teachers try to have a journal component for […]

“Say Something”

Say Something is a method that Faye Brownlie talks about in her book “Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses: A Unique Approach to Literature Circles.” It is a method where each group (4-7 people) come together. Each person has a passage that they wish to share. The first person will share and after they share the passage […]

Faye Brownlie and Setting up Lit Circles

I have been reading up on lit circles by reading Faye Brownlie’s book “Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses. A Unique Approach to Literature Circles.” It is a book that is essentially a set up guide on how to run literature circles effectively in a classroom. I was also able to interview the vice principal at my […]

Lit Circles: The Beginning Steps of my Inquiry

For my inquiry I am going to look at Literature Circles and how to implement them effectively in the classroom. I was watching some videos on Youtube and these two are good intro videos for getting an idea of how to start approaching lit circles. Most Literature circle groups have 4-6 members. The teacher […]