Getting Started

September 2012.
As part of the course GLIT6724 Literature for Children and Young Adults, I needed to come up with a forum for sharing some aspect with my peers.

Over the years, I have done a lot of work with Literature Circles - first as a high school English teacher, using lit circles to get more students to read more of the class novel more often. Eventually I began to notice two things: no novel is really appropriate to do with a whole class, and sometimes I needed to use shorter pieces of text to reinforce the reading strategies.

Flash forward to the dawn of the Big 6 Comprehension strategies and once again, I am knee-deep in literature circles, creating updated role sheets to blend the traditional lit circle roles with the most common comprehension strategies.

So now, I am going to share these role sheets and suggest some picture books that may be used to practice these strategies.