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- The Birchbark House
- This study guide was created by a group of third grade enrichment students. They were planning to read this book but could find no published guide to go with it. They decided to create their own as they read.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Carolyn Ridgway.
- Night of the Twisters
- Reading strategies are used to introduce a literary work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Authurice Mitchell.
- North Carolina Cherokee Indians: The Trail of Tears
- In this two week unit, students will study the Cherokee by participating in literature circles, learning about Native American story telling, writing a letter to Andrew Jackson to protest against the Creek War, and more.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gina Golden.
Resources on the web
- Literature Circles Resource Center
- Designed to be a resource for elementary and middle school teachers interested in founded and integrating literature circles into their curricula and school cultures. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by:
- LiteratureCircles.com
- This site provides information, guidance, and resources for teachers interested in developing literature circles in their classrooms. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: The Walloon Institute
- Teaching Resources
- Powerful resources for teachers! Blackline masters, activities, books, workshops, and more are available on this site from Laura Candler. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: Laura Candler
- Story character homepage
- This lesson from ReadWriteThink presents a project for literature circles or class novels to develop understanding of a character. In groups students will look at examples of homepages on the Internet, note what elements most contain, and use them as models... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Literature circles with primary students using self-selected reading
- This lesson from ReadWriteThink is a structured guideline for helping students learn to think about the books they read, and to ask questions about books shared by other students. It is especially appropriate for mixed-age and upper primary classes, or... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Literature Circles: Getting started
- This lesson serves as an introduction to the use of literature circles in the elementary classroom. Readwritethink offers a workshop-style lesson and a tool-kit for teachers who are using this collaborative reading strategy for the first time. Students... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Literature circle roles reframed: Reading as a film crew
- Students read and analyze books in this lesson where film production roles are substituted for the traditional literature circle roles. After students brainstorm roles found in film crews, they consider what the possible responsibilities of these jobs would... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Weaving the multigenre web
- In this lesson, students read novels, analyze the literary elements, and create a multigenre project to present information to their peers. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
