Teachers can introduce students to the wonderful world of books and increase their understanding of literature with this remarkable program. Featuring informative interviews with educators and students who have used Book Club in their classrooms, the video illustrates how the book club program works. The comprehensive 296-page handbook bases its instruction on eight age-appropriate (grades 4-6) book titles and includes helpful suggestions, innovative model lesson plans, and several blackline masters. This program will not only improve your students' comprehension, communication, and writing skills, but it will also instill a love of literature and reading that will last a lifetime.

Book club: A literature-based curriculum

Education & Teaching

Taffy E. Raphael

Laura S. Pardo

Kathy Highfield

Susan I. McMahon

Schools & Teaching

Small Planet Communications

<p>Employing a delicate blend of theory and practical advice, this book shows how to engage adolescent learners with literature and help them assume increased responsibility for their own learning. Quality literature forms the foundation of the program. Students receive strategy instruction, write in response to the literature, and learn to participate in meaningful peer discussions. Carefully modeled on classroom research, the program provides specific examples and detailed lesson plans. Produced by Small Planet Communications</p>

Book Club for Middle School

Raphael, Taffy

Kehus, Marcella

Damphousse, Karen

This classroom-tested Book Club Novel Guide for Missing May by Cynthia Rylant contains a complete thematic unit that focuses on an excellent novel. The guide elaborates on the novel's major themes with related readings, writing activities, and unit projects. An overview of the Book Club program explains how students engage with literature and with each other through the program's unique use of small-group discussions. Detailed daily lesson plans support instruction in comprehension strategies, literary analysis, language conventions, and composition. Actual samples of student work show what you can expect your own students to achieve. Innovative blackline masters support writing, composition, critical thinking, and assessment.

Missing May: Book Club Novel Guide

Taffy Raphael

This classroom-tested Book Club Novel Guide based on author's title contains a complete thematic unit that focuses on an excellent novel. The guide elaborates on the novel's major themes with related readings, writing activities, and unit projects. An overview of the Book Club program explains how students engage with literature and with each other through the program's unique use of small-group discussions. Detailed daily lesson plans support instruction in comprehension strategies, literary analysis, language conventions, and composition. Actual samples of student work show what you can expect your own students to achieve. Innovative blackline masters support writing, composition, critical thinking, and assessment.

The View from Saturday (Book Club Novel Guide)

This classroom-tested Book Club Novel Guide for Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell contains a complete thematic unit that focuses on an excellent novel. The guide elaborates on the novel's major themes with related readings, writing activities, and unit projects. An overview of the Book Club program explains how students engage with literature and with each other through the program's unique use of small-group discussions.    Detailed daily lesson plans support instruction in comprehension strategies, literary analysis, language conventions, and composition. Actual samples of student work show what you can expect your own students to achieve. Innovative blackline masters support writing, composition, critical thinking, and assessment.

Sing Down the Moon (Book Club Novel Guide)

<p>Book by Raphael, Taffy E., Florio-Ruane, Susan, George, Marianne, Hasty, Nina, Highfield, Kathy</p>

Book Club Plus! a Literacy Framework for the Primary Grades

Raphael, Taffy E.

Florio-Ruane, Susan

George, Marianne

Hasty, Nina

Highfield, Kathy

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