Literature Circles for Grades 3 & 4 - Getting Started Guide Jobs Rules and MORE!
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Looking to get started with Literature Circles in your room? This pack is meant to make literature circles EASIER! This resource has everything you need to get started including rules, directions, jobs, and more! Use this pack to get started with literature circles in your room and take advantage of this fun way to help your students grow in reading abilities!
Literature Circles for Grades 3-4 - Getting Started Guide, Jobs, Rules and MORE Includes:
- 7 job packets: Discussion leader, Word Detective, The SPC (setting, plot, and character tracker), The Connector, The Recapper, Drawing Captain, In-House Poet.
- Teacher directions
- Student rules
- Student job list
- Job posters
There are 7 jobs included in this pack, but you obviously do not need to use all of them. You will most likely have 4 or 5 students in each of your groups. You can select jobs for each student, or allow them to choose the job that they would MOST like to have.
Daily Breakdown for Introducing Literature Circles:
- Day 1- Go over all of jobs and explain what a lit circle looks like. Introduce and the rules and the jobs (both of which are included in this pack). Pages 6-12 be printed and displayed on a bulletin board in the classroom so students remember what each job is and how it is to be performed.
- Day 2- Recap the jobs and MODEL, MODEL, MODEL what a literature circle is and how it should be run!
- Day 3- Choose books for students (or have students choose their own), have students choose his/her job, and get started with the reading process.
I would suggest having students read for approximately 15 minutes. Give students approximately 5-10 minutes to finish filling their day’s packet, and then get back together with the group to share out the information that goes along with his/her specific job. Your students will love learning about literature circles and using them in class!
See What Other Teachers Are Saying . . .
⭐ This is such a big help with our new reading program. This is a great resource to use in class. You can have it for independent work, centers, small group, and whole group if you really want to. Very helpful!
⭐ My students have really enjoyed our introduction to literature circles. They have started borrowing more books from the library as a result and are looking forward to their next books.
⭐ I used this to help guide students through their first literature circle. These students struggle with comprehension and focus. This product helped them learn how to pick out the important parts of the text and think critically about what they were reading.
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