1. EXTENDING BOOK CLUBS

2. Why Book Clubs?  To learn to read well, all students need to read thought-provoking, age-appropriate books. They also need to respond thoughtfully to books by discussing and writing what they read.  Reading directly affects student achievement.  We are Media Specialists, reading is what we do! Raphael, Taffy E., Susan Florio-Ruane, and MariAnne George. "Book Club Plus: A Conceptual Framework to Organize Literacy Instruction." Language Arts 79.2 (November 2001): 159-168.Language Arts 79.2

3. How do I fit it in?  Make it part of your RBES.  Pick books from the past Reader Rally list since you already have multiple copies. Make a plan for the activities you want to do with the books.  When planning the activities think of alternative ways to enrich the book clubs.

4. How do I fit it in?  Block off time in your schedule to meet with your book club.  Pick a teacher who is flexible and easy to work with.

10. Students watch book trailers or listen to book talks to select their books.

11. Discussion Questions  Students are given 2 weeks to read the book they choose.  Students discuss both the notes they wrote as well as questions I prepare.  Students discuss the book twice. Once when they are half way through the book and again when they have finished the book.

14. Discussion Video

15. Literary Focus Activities  During some of the books we also focus on an additional literary concept in addition to the discussion questions or journal responses.  Character Traits  Setting

16. Journal Responses  This is in addition to the classroom discussions and is written in their reading journal.  One journal response is completed for each book. They have a choice of two journal responses. They write their responses as homework.

17. Journal Responses  Their journal responses counts as a grade for them for their classroom teacher.  Journal responses allow the students to think deeper about the book they read.

21. Edmodo Blog  They type their responses in Word and then copy and paste them into www.edmodo.comwww.edmodo.com  The blog also houses surveys/polls about their books.  It has links to author videos.  It also has links to their completed projects.

22. Students blogging in the Media Center

23. What they students think of Edmodo (blog)

24. Enrichment Assignments  Author Study using Glogster  Book Reviews using Animoto Still to Come  Readers Theater (rewrite a scene to act out)  Battle of the Books competition

25. Author Study with Glogster EDU  Cumulate reading Haddix books by doing an author study.  Provide students with a rubric, planning sheet, and checklist for what is required.  Set up accounts on Glogster. I chose the single license for $11.99 a month since I only needed 3 months access. http://samolo.edu.glogster.com/dashboard/

31. Glogster Presentations

32. Student responses to Glogster http://gwinoakspageturners.weebly.com/glogster.html

33. Animoto  Highlight key moments in books with pictures, video, music, and text.  Goal is to make a book trailer to entice others to read the book.  You can register for a free educator account and then register for multiple Gmail accounts to divide up access.

34. Animoto

37. Animoto Example Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

38. Animoto Example Esperanza Rising

39. Students’ thoughts on book clubs