Description

Everything you need for book clubs!

Book clubs have never been so easy! This easy-to-use reading journal is print and digital, and includes everything you need to run and organize your literature circles — or book clubs for your middle school students.

Perfect for differentiating, mini lessons, and getting students engaged with great texts!

This reading journal can be used with any novel to create a four week (or fewer) book club unit.

By the end of this unit, your students will have practice with:

• summarizing
• identifying new vocabulary
• focusing on making deep, meaningful connections with the text
• examining how setting influences the text
• analyzing characters
• analyze conflict and how it develops in the text

Reasons this journal will make your life easier:

• Ready to use — digital or print
• Planning chart is done for you — it’s editable and easy to customize
• Use over and over again with any fiction text!
• Differentiation is a snap! Choose books that are appropriate for your readers. The groups can set their reading schedule and meetings. All readers can use this journal.
• 35 open-ended discussion questions — perfect for journal prompts, warm ups, group discussion starters
• Self-pacing! Students can work at their own pace, which means you can keep book clubs going all year!
• Great sub lesson as well. Student paced!!

This is what you’ll get:

♥ teacher resource with sample schedule, editable calendar, and 14 project suggestions

♥ print and digital versions

♥ Student survey: preview of novel

♥ Student schedule for reading and club meetings

Part I

♥ summary

♥ vocabulary collector

♥ what’s the setting

♥ characters in part I

♥ making connections — text to self

♥ the conflict in part I

Part II

♥ summary

♥ vocabulary collector

♥ making connections — text to text

♥ the conflict in part II

Part III

♥ summary

♥ vocabulary collector

♥ making connections — text to world

♥ the conflict in part III

Part IV

♥ summary

♥ vocabulary collector

♥ making connections — review and depth

♥ the conflict in part IV

End of novel activities for individual students or the whole book club

♥ Let’s take a closer look: favorite parts & visualization

♥ Visualization practice – illustrating a favorite passage

♥ Reflection on how reading changes readers

♥ Novel review and recommendations

♥ Discussion questions that you can assign to groups for jigsaw or fishbowl discussions, assessments, exit questions, or writing prompts

♥ Rubric makes it easy for you to assess the journal

Note: there are 20 discussion questions in the foldable booklet; there are 35 discussions in the vertical and digital journals — you have access to both!

Please check out the preview for all the goodies!

When you purchase you will receive:

a zipped file with four different files inside:

1. the teacher resource that includes the link to the digital journal
2. vertical journal
3. horizontal journal (foldable – print front-to-back) in color
4. horizontal journal (foldable – print front-to-back) in black & white

Looking for more help getting started?  Read this post for tips.