The opportunity to do book clubs in class was a great way to
better understand the pros and cons to it. I really enjoyed this because it not
only allows for students to include more reading within their classes but you
can add different strategies and class topics relating to the book. The great
thing about book clubs is that it can teach students how to work together and
accomplish the task at hand. With other subject aside from Language Arts,
having book clubs or a type of reading club allows for the class to incorporate
the skill of reading comprehension. The important thing to note is that reading
an entire novel takes time. When incorporating something like this into your
lesson plan it is important to schedule properly. Learning about different ways
like reading certain parts of the novel or splitting it up between students
could be very beneficial. The downside to book clubs is that not all books are
written in a way that could be sectioned. I will be using book clubs in my classroom
because I think it brings a lot of beneficial things into the class. A math
class especially because it will provide
not only more opportunity to include literacy but a different way to present the
material.
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Meghan,
ReplyDeleteI like your point about planning and carving out time to read an entire novel. I did not even think about the time it would take to read a novel with my class until I read your post. I think it is very important thing to consider. We are going to have SO much to cover material wise so we would really have to sit down and decide if we wanted to read the entire novel or just parts of it.
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Kaylie Herbert