Description: Book club is a curriculum developed with students and teachers in mind to create student-led discussions in the classroom.
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Imagine a classroom full of children having lively, meaningful conversations about books. What would it take to get children so engaged in their reading that they'd be eager to talk about it with their classmates? How could a curriculum be structured to support student-led discussions? And how could reading, writing, speaking, and listening be integrated in such a curriculum?
These are some of the questions that a team of university researchers and classroom teachers set out to explore in 1989. They developed a curriculum centered around small, student-led discussion groups called book clubs. Since that time, they have refined the Book Club program based on their research and experience with many students. Now the materials to create a Book Club curriculum are available to teachers everywhere. These materials include handbooks for elementary and middle school teachers, an instru