Description

Book Clubs provide a way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection, as well as applying the comprehension strategies as they read, discuss and react to books. Through conversation with other readers, students reshape, add to their thinking, while questioning and clarifying their way through texts.
-Planning book clubs that extend instruction
-Teaching comprehension strategies that become roles
-Training students to independence
-Guided book clubs
-Gradual release and book clubs
-Monitoring book clubs
-Evaluating book clubs
-Management of book clubs
-Fiction & Non-fiction book clubs

Genre:  Fiction and Nonfiction

Materials: Trade books, short texts, short stories, and nonfiction texts

Dates:  June 1 & 2, 2021

Virtual workshop for ELA teachers of Grades 3-8

Free for NESC educators
$200 for educators outside the NESC membership