Discussion Director, passage picker, summarizer, word wizard, creative connector, artful artist, these are all new classroom jobs we have in 5th grade. These are not the daily jobs we were assigned at the beginning of the year. However, these are the jobs we have started in Literature Circles. The past two weeks we have been working in small groups called literature circles or book groups.
The class was given a choice between three different Roald Dahl books, Danny Champion of the World, The BFG, and The Witches. Some students had read one or two of these titles, but many students wanted to re-read a book. Our literature circle is organized like a book group or book discussion. Each student gets an opportunity to share something at the meeting. Each job has a specific task, and the jobs rotate every meeting. The meetings have been really great. We get the chance to hear what our classmates are saying about the books we are reading. We will continue running literature circles this year in 5th grade with other books.
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