Book Clubs

good morning and Jamie from console 1b teacher and today news Eve is the last day in a video series and I have been doing all about teaching reading so I know some of you have been here for the whole series and some of you might be popping in for your very first video and that's fine too if you missed any of the videos you can still watch them on my Facebook page my facebook page is called not so in B teacher it's different than my groups it's just a Facebook page go ahead and search not so be teacher if you're not already following and there's a tab up at the top called videos if you click on it you'll see the last four videos that I did about in this series will be the first four that appear I did one about the reading holger a mini lesson and then I did one about independent reading time I did a video about teaching your students how respond to text and then yesterday I did one about my reading centers so today we're going to talk about my small reading groups and what I did with my small reading groups so if you've if you're looking for some ideas for revamping your reading groups or making them simpler or more fun and this is the right place for you also I wanted to let you know that there will be some giveaways during my life for those of you who are watching it live your enter to win so as long as you're here watching it live you have a chance of winning so you might want to stick around see if you are a winner alright so today I show you were talking about small groups and you have my slide says book clubs and some people might be surprised to find out that book clubs are what I do with my small groups so tell me how do you ever done a book club either with a small group of students or maybe your whole class have you ever done what you would consider to be a book club because I think there's lots of different types of book clubs you could do but have you ever don't think you would consider to be able Club in your own classroom I'm curious where we're starting from it's fine some people say I don't even know what about commas that's fine I think that I can give you a really good some really good ideas and it this may be something you want to try in your room and it may not be but every classroom is different every teacher and their teaching style is different every group of students is different so I thought I would give you some tools during this series that you might be able to take into your classroom and make you're really being instruction a little bit more engaging meaningful etc okay so we have probably a good mix of people who have done it maybe that it and some of us in I've never even heard of it so we have a good mix all right I'd love to start doing him some people said all right so if you've been watching these videos then you know that my number one absolute most important goal in teaching reading is that my students should love to read that's my number one goal is they want to get me students to love reading and I mean this in so many different ways but one of the most important ways that help them to love reading is introduced them to lots of different authors series genres I am fine with them reading graphic novels magazines how-to books whatever it is that sparks an interest for them and so you should get a kiddo interested in some sort of topic and you can put a book in front of them that's how you create a life long reader someone who loves reading someone whole pick up a book when you are not there so don't look up a book when they don't have to and that's my ultimate goal as a reading teacher is to have any students want to pick up a book and read even though it's not an assignment something that they have to read and so that's what all my videos have really been focusing in on student choice and just getting lots of text in front of that different types of text because ultimately I want these students to love reading and that is a huge reason why I do book clubs book clubs for me are all about introducing different types of text to my readers book clubs are all about giving them like a taste a little snippet like they read the first book in a series and they love it and they can't wait to read the rest on their own or reading a book by an author and they just wow that's really great yeah that author has ten more books and they're in our class library would you like to check one out that's what I want the clubs to do I want the clubs to make my kids go whoa I need to read more and at the same time I use the book clubs to teach and practice the standards that I am required to teach they are a little secondary to me I I always meant that that teaching students to love to read is primary and secondary are those standards I have found though that standards just come so much easier to the student who loves to read okay so yeah I have some of the teachers who are ready to start some book clubs awesome I will answer questions at the end so make sure you can go ahead and ask them I do my very best to answer maulding the text comes across my screen kind of fast sometimes all right I can see that some of the questions you're already asking I am going to be answering I'm glad you're enjoying these videos I have plans to do a lot of our videos this year because you guys keep telling me that this is what you like and so I have been setting goals for 2019 and a huge one it's going to be a whole lot more videos here we go let's get started I've shown this slide before me other videos but it's worth just a refresher I have four reading groups I have about any of my class I usually have between 24 and 28 kids and so I need four reading groups any less would just be too many kids in a group in my opinion but everyone that's different so I like to have about four groups but I only met with two per day two per day and I know that sometimes scares people they say watch you're not going to meet with think of one of your readers every day and that's true I'm not but I'm actually getting more minutes with them with this schedule than I was when I was trying to meet with all four groups I have less transition times now so less wasted time because we're only doing two rotations and a day therefore I'm not wasting a whole bunch of time with students moving getting materials out putting materials away and so this gives me more minutes with my groups so at the end of the week actually spent more time with them that I did it previously was trying to meet with them all in a week also when they're not meeting with me they are still doing very meaningful activities so I don't feel like it's just something too busy them they're not just doing busy work they're doing meaningful activities so this gives you just sort of an idea of what my schedules like if it's something that's you want to come back to and think about you might want to screenshot it I also the blog series on my blog Knox will be teacher calm and if you search ela block you'll see information all about not only my reading blocks but also vocabulary grammar and writing and you'll see a similar image in those posts too as a reminder so basically two rotations so I did the exact same things Mondays as I did Wednesdays and then I did the same thing on Thursdays as I did on Tuesdays and my kiddos could get really used to this sort of schedule they would meet with me they would do a response to reading they would have centers time and read to self time and all my videos have kind of talked about these different pieces of my block so we're left with just the meet the teachers found it's the last one we have not talked out so if you missed any of the other videos I went through responding to reading the centers and being read to self in those videos so you might want to check those out I did have an hour to do my rotations so I had about 30 minutes per rotation throw in the transition times at about 28 minutes per rotation so there's that of course I did this after a full group lesson so I didn't have time to introduce skills to the whole group and if you want to learn more about that I already did a video about it all right so this is sort of a review let's talk book clubs I am a law book clubs other than read itself I feel like the book clubs are the most meaningful thing that my kiddos are doing in reading okay but most importantly this is my first thing for you I have a couple of different things I think you're super super important but clubs are for every group there's every group can do a book club sometimes I see people say well I want to start a book club for my high students and that's fabulous or my students are gonna love it but I sometimes think it's actually your little groups that need it the most oftentimes not all the time but oftentimes it's our struggling leaders who think they don't like to read and who can blame my ratings so hard for them and when something's really hard it's not generally something we choose to do with our free time so who can blame them the best thing we can do for these struggling readers while they're still growing is introduce them to texts that they're going to find interesting and exciting and I use book clubs to do this if you're always giving them the little readers that come with your basil and I understand you might have to it's fine but if that's all they're getting exposed to it's not very exciting you and I both know those readers are generally very good stories they're kind of boring right and they don't interest all of our readers but that's the only kind of texts are really being introduced to who can lean them for not wanting to pick up a book and read on their own so I think the book clubs are for everyone we just need to differentiate these book clubs so that they work for all of our groups but that's actually very simple to do I think every kiddo can be in a book club I haven't seen first grade classes using the clubs it's all just about what books you ask them to do to read but I really feel like everyone should be introduced to real honest good great books not not just like phonics readers and I understand that you may still have to do those but hopefully you can get a little bit creative with your meet the teacher time and steal some away from what clocks even if you have to put a little bit aside for a phonics practice with those intervention kiddos it would be really awesome for them to also get your ebooks just like the high group it makes them feel good like what what can I do the same thing is a commitment and they know they know who the lower-middle with the higher you don't have to tell them they just kind of know after a while but to be able to do the same thing as the other groups and at the same time be introduced to me a series that you think they might be interested in reading on their own after the book club it is invaluable it's such a good use of your time so I highly recommend triangle clubs with every group if you if you feel like you can handle that okay alright this is my next baby and this is where I am very different than other people about how I do my book clubs all right this is the standard book club and one that you may have done before or have experienced with your all reading a book and maybe you tell them exactly like you need to read chapter one by Wednesday and okay you are the discussion leader and you're the word wizard you're the illustrator and you're the summarizing captain I don't know all kinds of fun little jobs have you guys ever seen what clubs like that it's really how I did what clubs at first and it's pretty it's a traditional type of book club where you are have a share text but everyone has a different job and those jacoub rotate like maybe each time you met with the book clubs or once a week or what have you they would rotate but I ever want to be given a little job but to do for that reading okay um I did this I do I do this it is pretty normal if you've done if you've done a book called like this and you know this is pretty standard and if you research book clubs on Teachers Pay Teachers your men all kinds of cutesy little jobs that you can you I didn't do jobs I got rid of I mean I started using them and here's what I found out like okay so our whole group lesson was all about about how to retell a story like summarizing it okay that was our folk request and that's what we've been working on and then we come to book clubs so I've got my group and we're handing out chops one person is gonna get the job of being the summarizing captain another person's illustrating and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with illustrating but that's not hoping I practice the skill they're still gonna be assessed on the skill and they still have to know it is still a standard and I'm hard to teach them but they're not actually practicing it that way maybe they'll practice at two or three weeks from now and it's their turn but wouldn't it be amazing if they were actually practicing it right now while we were learning how to wouldn't be mean if the stuff I was teaching whole group they were able to immediately implement so that they had practiced right away and didn't forget the tools and strategies I was giving them and I was like of course that would make sense but and also I thought I'm spending a lot of time assigning jobs and then everyone's to do their job the next time you meet and here's thing like this summarizing captain will be absent that day we wouldn't even have a summary boat and the guy isn't even here to tell us when he rolled or the discussion leader in the absent the illustrators never absent right but I would or kiddos wouldn't complete their jobs they show up to book club and the job wasn't complete and that kind of was a bum deal for everybody so these jobs were super frustrating me they just didn't seem to be helping me in my teaching of the standards and their practice of the standards so I thought let's ditch the jobs that's find it a ditch them now there isn't like everyone has a job and they got to remember it and gotta sign it and none of that okay oh my gosh it makes it so much easier the whole pressure off your shoulders you don't have to worry about keeping track of who has what job and some did what job none of it but how in practice those standards we stopped to do it so everyone has the same job and it's based on one skill working on that week everyone a same job so we're working on retelling the story guess what everyone in my group is going to be rich on story writing the summary of that chapter that they read I think we're working on context clues every single person in my group is going to find five words for that chapter in context clues help define it we're working on character traits every single person in my group is what I identified the main character in the chapter and a trait to define to describe them that way everyone in the group is practicing the skill we are working on as a class that way I know that they're getting some real genuine practice with the skills okay and oh my gosh want to start doing this like so much easier it was less time wasted with like assigning things and keeping everyone up to date on track and just more time to read guys that's what we eat we need them to be spending the majority of their book club there is the teacher rotation reading they're done I understand the value of some discussion and some writing but ultimately you should look at however many minutes you have with your group and the majority of them should be spent reading even if you have 15 minutes be group then 10 of them should be spent reading that's my whole opinion these are reading groups the best thing we can do Burk I chose to spend them reading so I took out all of the like the maintenance of book clubs to make more time for reading that make sense okay and so here's what I used for well we were all I have the club and I've did this different ways and I like to pull for a reason sometimes I need my kudos a packet where I photocopied a cover for each one and the different graphic organizers I also going to want to do and it's easy to know which one you're gonna do if you have few listen in my first video I talked about how I broke up my standards into two week increments you you could look ahead and know exactly what your standards are gonna be for the next 810 weeks and just make some guy for those these are my club graphic organizers by the way I'll be giving them away for free in this video so sometimes I would just make a packet I'm like okay I know we're going to be doing retelling I know that we're going to be covering asking and answering questions I know we'll be doing you know text features so that was one way that you can do you make a packet sometimes I like just print the graphic organizers and have kiddos glue them into the reading notebooks or keep them in a reading folder kind of depends it just depends what kind of materials you already use new in groups and what you think will make it fastest and cheapest okay so I know either way to fully work sometimes I just kept these they didn't come up and get to an end to worry about them losing a packet and so the day that we were gonna do this particular got torn is or could just be sitting on the table as soon as they got to meet the teacher they would see it and they could just start cutting it putting it in the reading notebook so that I could take that one extra minute and make sure that the rest of my kiddos were getting where they needed to be or answering a question so that's one way or just have a packet and you can keep it at their table or they keep it in a folder and bring it to you when they come with to meet the teacher I tended to just I would have like a plastic tub like a steroid tub and I would keep the books that they're reading and their packets all in the tub and then my kiddos would know as soon as they come back there to grab that tub off of my shelf pan out the books grab their packets so everything was all in like one place and they didn't have to remember to bring anything with them kind of made it faster for most of my kiddos but that's a different idea of how you can do this and so they would have all their graphic organizers and they'd be ready to go so we could focus on skill and the cool thing is it's easy to still spiral I'm not saying that after two weeks we don't need to practice we're done we can always retell a chapter even if we're working on contracts clues but first and foremost we'll do a context clues graphic organizer or two and then maybe one of the days that we're meeting will do a retell the chapter or an ask and answer questions just to continue to practice skills that we have already learned that way that they are still getting that extra an extra spiral so those are the materials that I would use to remember club but everyone's doing the same thing and it was just so easy for me to prep them plan because I already knew what standards I'd be doing so I could just print out graphic organizers that went along with those particular standards my book club sets I have them for fiction and nonfiction and total when you put them together it's like fifty some graphic organizers so I I had one for every skill pretty much and just worked out perfectly so this is what I would use in middle class and then just to give you a little look at what the schedule would look like when we're doing this so I told you I have 30 minute rotations cuz I only meet with two groups per day giving myself an extra big chunk of time to dig deeper and that's important so on average and I mean we have a couple minutes for transitions but we were reading for about 20 minutes and then we were talking flash writing for 10 so here's how it would go my kiddos all come back to the table they grab their books because they know exactly where they're at and they're right next to my table and we coral red coral I don't send the book home with them it's not a homework assignment is something assignment at your desk and here is why and this can be a really different than how a lot of people around book clubs also I did I did a whole you want a signed read chapters two and three and then they would come to the table the next time we met and they did a rage hunters two or three didn't seem like it and so it was a waste of our time to get together and talk about two or three so now we leave together we are reading together it's a shared reading experience and makes call our discussion more meaningful so we coral read we read it together I don't generally have just one person read aloud I tend to call read and the cool thing if you have an around type of reading table you can hear your individual readers you really can kind of pinpoint if you're trying to just listen to their fluency you can kind of hear that so I if I there's a kid oh I'm not really hearing I just tap in front of him and he kind of brings him back down and he'll start meeting a little bit for me now as far as being distracting to other readers well here's what we do first of all I talk to this is all part of the training at the beginning we talked a lot about that we're talking my independent reading we talked about a lot of the training that would go into it first of all the independent readers as they get more stamina and they're doing really good reading start adding in sound and distractions so they can practice with that ad in the distraction and see if they can keep their eyes on the book and if you can't you stop and you start over again the next day just like we talked about in that video and if you didn't watch that video you really should write it's important that they learn how to read with distractions because in our world it's hard to find the time or a place where you can read without distractions this is still a really cool Essen for them also my book plants when I'm reading with them I do ask them to read quietly we're still reading it but we're not reading like this we just need to read like this that's fine because we're all right next to each other does that make sense and we kind of practice that and if I feel like they're getting a little too loud okay and we can bring it back down all right but they are the only ones that should be making any noise whatsoever all the other rotations are quiet rotation so they should be the only ones making any noise and yeah I kept a little distracting but here's one thing I used to drive me crazy when I would look up and some what I'm supposed to be doing centers was sitting there listening to our book club and I thought about Emily okay yeah I'm going on my channel with them but really they're so distracted and interested in our story that they can't make like me NOLA she was doing something else but they can't they stop it em to listen there's worse things that could be going on in my classroom and it can't always so distracted and interested in a story and so maybe I need to find another copy of that book and see if he wants to read it independently I mean that's that's one way to kind of grab their interest and use it to your advantage I do like to read with them I'm seeing right there with them sometimes I'm not reading aloud so I'm trying really hard to listen to their fluency and so forth but the most part I'm reading along with them I am showing them what it looks like to love reading I'm giving them an example with good fluency sounds like we're all ready to get there and guess what we're creating was fun experience so I'm showing them reading is fun reading something you do with the people that you care about we're all as a classroom family reading and I feel like this creates a really powerful experience my kids are excited about book clubs my kids are never excited like okay let's come back to that table and read the story of the week for the third time that was exciting to any of us I also use a different book with each one of my groups so I have four groups so I'm reading four books at once this makes it way more fun for me too I don't know what you but reading that Neitzel story over and over and over again super boring hard to show me kids a love for reading what I really wasn't loving it it has given me the opportunity to read some some really fun books which I'm going to talk about books that I like to read in book clubs and how to pick up books here in just a moment so we're going to spend the majority of our time together reading you can see that in a 30 minute Club oh it's been 20 minutes reading at least sometimes we get someone into it it'd be 25 and you know what wait I did not stop them every paragraph and say so what it don't so say so what's why I didn't and I know that lots of us have been taught to do that we teach reading and that's you and you love it you don't have to success with it go for it I always found that one it breaks up the fluency of the story and it doesn't give your readers that that great example of what a fluent reader sounds like it breaks a copy of their interest in the story they're just getting interested they want to know what happens next and boom you stop though and if you keep doing that it's hard to comprehend and follow the story think about your own you as a reader you reading a good buck and your two-year-old keeps tapping you mom mom mom you can't get into it you can't comprehend what's happening it doesn't work right so you don't like to be interrupted in the middle of reading a good book and they don't either so I try to interrupt them as little as possible okay it doesn't mean I've never stopped them because I'm a teacher and I can't help it sometimes I just get Austin but I try to stop them very little giving them lots of opportunity to get invested in the story and understand what fluent reading sounds like okay so at the end of our groups we will spend some time talking and/or writing sometimes we do both sometimes we do one or the other we don't have to do one of these graphic organizers every single time we meet we don't have to especially if we ended up getting like lost and lost track of time I'm reading for 25 minutes it's okay if we don't do a graphic organizer now we have a discussion I mean that's they're really excited to talk about a book that they're interested in and so we can have some really neat discussions that I could never have planned out on my lesson plans mean you're also glad you put one discussion question you hope to ask but how do you tell you what the best stuff that comes is the stuff you didn't plan so we can discuss how we would summarize a chapter together but one kiddo might say I don't understand why did he do this or that and we could all circle why did he do that what are you gonna do and the conversation could take a whole different turn and end up being better than the one I thought we were going to have so that's what's so amazing about book clubs so all right spend the majority even if you only have to be of twenty minutes I would spend dying 15:14 of them reading just the majority of it reading talk less but what we would do we've all read together and then we would talk right together we would tend to fill out these graphic organizers as a group or I could tell them to turn to the press right next to them at the group so they're kind of our hand partners the group to work up filling them out and this could be a good time especially with your hire our grips this could be a good time to pull a kiddo s ID for a reading conference so if you've got a lower kiddo struggling to find a book during independent reading time and you know he needs a little assistance we're hi kennels are working on retelling the chapter that you just read you could pull one kiddo for a reading conference and then head back to your table to see what they came up with and honestly if it takes two different meetings with you to fill out the graphic organizer that's still okay if you want them to take it back to their seats and maybe finish it the next day as morning work or what have you you could do that but I think the most important the thing yet to do is to read read often and read thoughts so I didn't stop them all the time right I know this may sound crazy to you but we didn't stop and write we didn't we're reading we're reading books from the library from my own personal collection so they weren't always highlighting I would put out post-it notes for them and some kiddos would grab those cuz it see a word like oh I won't bring this up later and so they'd grab a post-it note but for the most part we just read and then we would spend the last minutes working on the skill using our book that we'd read together working on the skill that we were learning as a whole group and that is what I did with my small groups okay so I get lots of questions about choosing books and I got lots of people who are like well what look would you use if my kids were level and what book would you let use if and you can see there's a lot of things that you can need to take into account when choosing books I can't tell you what would be the perfect book for your kiddos you're gonna have to do a little thinking about your kids and you're gonna do a little experimenting maybe you try a book club and it doesn't quite hit hit it and you have to try a different one and you'll learn as you go but here's some things to consider firstly you do need to consider the reading level your hiker all groups shouldn't be reading the same book um it's okay for it to be a little about their level because they're getting lots of support during reading groups so it's a it's okay for them occasionally to go into that frustration level because you are there you got other Club members there so if there's times where they're like but you're at least there to support them should they always be in the frustration level but clubs I don't think so because that's not fun and we always want to make reading fun but kids sitters are level when I say consider was gonna live all like I don't I don't need to know everyone's lifestyle level and and that's were thing as a teacher you know better than anyone else what how your kiddos read and so I think you need to take that into consideration if you look up books on scholastic or there's tons of websites you can look up that will give you Lexile levels and all kinds of other leveling that might help you to pick a books and you might be surprised sometimes don't be surprised when looking I'm like really I'm tired like so um this one it doesn't seem like it ought to be so you make the final decision about what makes sense level wise for your kiddos but five four different groups then I probably have four different levels although my middle groups are usually very similar in level so maybe their books are similar but definitely behind red my lover are not reading the exact same book that's how I'm really able to differentiate and be able to to be doing the same activity but still differentiate and that makes my readers feel good hey yep I know lots of use different programs for that just this is one consideration and shouldn't be the only consideration a book can sometimes be a little below or a little above their level and still be a fantastic book to be read by a book club okay if it's meets all the other criteria you might still consider it even if it's a little bit easier a little bit tough okay the second thing to consider is your skill focus what skills are you going to be teaching in the next several weeks now how I do this people always say well what would be a good book if I'm teaching and yeah what would be a good book if I'm teaching character traits here if I'm going to say if you're reading a fiction book it's probably going to be a good book for anyone of the literature standards and if you're reading a nonfiction book it's generally a good match for most of the informational standards and that's why I do just literature standards first and third quarter and just informational standards second and fourth quarter helps me with my book clubs so at the beginning of the year I just a fictional book for old my book cups in second quarter I'm going to choose a non picture because we're learning the non-fiction standards so we need to have an example of a nonfiction book in order to complete graphic organizers for for informational types and practice the skills for learning then we can go back and do fiction and for some of your groups they're going to read more than one book in a quarter and that's fine if Actos usually they're little groups because the lower level books are shorter and they take last time and that's okay your book you're I feel like sometimes as teachers we are so used to like planning a briefing that book clips can be scary because really the best when you don't plan it by page like I got 20 minute straight let's see how far my groups make it instead of like today we'll reach after 2:00 tomorrow read chapter three sometimes you just gotta let them go and that means your logo finish the forehead group so you can still do the exact same graphic organizers even though your little group starting a new book and your high Kurt's still working on the book they started okay but you do need to consider skill focus if you're going to be teaching non-fiction standards if you're reading a fiction book you won't be able to practice the same standards so definitely consider that next definitely consider interest in fact this may be this up at number one interest I need the mistake of picking my favorite book thinking who was my favorite they'll clearly like it so I whip out the Boxcar Children for what I'm about club star children when I was young I think I am just like Jesse and I think violet school and I thought everyone will love the - car children it turns out my kids weren't interested in it at all they were pretty bored by it I couldn't I'm pushing it like my god welcome Ellie yeah sure and I realized I was thinking my favorite book instead of looking at what they're reading pay attention to what they are reading during a penetrating time being sad if your kids are already reading a lot by an author or series I wouldn't necessarily pick a book from that author series but rather look for books that are similar in genre because they are already in love with that book in serious I like my book hopes to introduce them to something new because they're gonna run out of that book or that series and you're they're gonna eat something else to read I will never forget when my son finished reading Harry Potter he says no they'll never be another good book to read how will they ever compared to Harry Potter so I wanted to introduce my kids to lots of different authors within their interest so that they'll have something new to read so that one we finished this book in book club they can't wait to read the rest as a series so if you notice they're reading fantasy books your your class wow they're reading a lot of fantasy then you're gonna want to look for maybe another fantasy book during or fiction standards that they aren't necessarily reading yet it might be when you don't have in your classroom library yeah or when you haven't noticed them picking up one that's new maybe but that way you're still thinking about their interests they seem to like fantasy but you're introducing them to something new I like to introduce them something you I do not I talked about this during when I was talking about middle realize I don't just read the whole series to the kids I read the first book from the series and then I made sure other books in the series are my classroom library for them to pick so that I do the same with book clubs I don't just like read a whole bunch of books that esteemeth are a whole bunch of books in the same series because I want to introduce some thoughts of different ones so that they can pick up the rest of the series and read during their independent type so do consider their interest it's so important and like I said it doesn't matter if your groups finish at different times like theirs it really doesn't matter Mylo group almost always finishes before my group so they just start another book and it really does not matter that if one groups on page 20 of their book and their groups on page 80 of their book this doesn't matter you're still doing the exact same standards and the exact same graphic organizers in every group so it's okay if they're in different places in the text it doesn't matter okay the other thing you really want to consider is access you need access to multiple copies of the book every kiddo and your book club should have the book in front of them it might be electronically I know that lots of you have technology and you can I have gotten the Kindle Fires for my class before they're rather inexpensive and so it was something that I invested in from a class and we did book clubs you bought books Kindle books and just put them on the Kindle Fires so we can actually see Kindle for our book club the kids liked it because it kind of grabs their whole like I love technology sort of interests me leave her for a book with pages and then I can use to gain olds and my life to be able to flip back and stuff but that's my personal preference and I'm not going to push if if they're interested in electronic books then go for it but other ways to find these books and I have a whole article on my blog about finding books your book clubs but so you can head to my blog melts won't be teacher just search book clubs you'll find all kinds of great information but check your school library check your public library check with other teachers on your team they may have one or two in their class library you have one or two in your class my brain for long you're able to put together five six seven copies of it also a huge thing that I did that just made book clubs so much easier once I discovered that this was actually a game changer this was the way I wanted to teach reading forever more I started making DonorsChoose projects for the club sets and so I found lots of books that I wanted to use with my book clubs and would order eight copies of them and that was amazing another thing you can do is watch the scholastic deals when you have extra points use them towards book club books doll but can sometimes be good but call books if you're everyone in your class tomorrow order it you know you don't want to pick up a bit so popular kids are you ready but do a little digging ask around one thing you might even do is put on your own personal personal Facebook page your friends might have some bucks set there kiddos have already read and don't plan to reread and so you can ask them hey does anyone have any copies of Charlotte's Web that they're finished with that they might be able to donate to my classroom you'd be surprised there's also a Facebook marketplace tech groups where people are getting rid of stuff and garage sales secondhand stores are awesome then you sell the books for half-price and so that's really nice so look around your town see if there's something like that but once they start doing some DonorsChoose projects and they had a quite a few different books that I can always choose from so that I could go to my closet be like alright what do I want to do with this particular group next quarter you know I got to do something nonfiction non-official will be your toughest one fictions a breeze to come up with books where I do believe the nonfiction book cups are more challenging to come up with books but not impossible my kiddos loved the Magic Treehouse research guides and wants me and so you could have a group read the fiction book one quarter and they give me the nonfiction research guide the next quarter it's really neat and it can kind of go along with science or social studies if you pick the right topic my kiddos would read the who was who is folks those aren't as engaging all on their own but if you pick a topic that's engaging to them then they like it I had a group read the Babe Ruth one and they all loved it couldn't get enough of it had a lot of sports players in my room and they were really really interested but the same book I'm just George Washington was boring to them so you know you just got to play around with that a little bit though who was who his books are actually pretty good um but do some digging and you can you will find non-fiction books that's just that will be more of a challenge so if you're getting ready to a nonfiction book club you're gonna want to spend some time digging at the library and so forth to see if you can find some good fiction chopped our books but DonorsChoose is a fantastic resource once you figure out a book that you really like so that is what I would do to pick books there is no one right book for every book club but you know what you some of your favorites are I loved to do frindle with my high group it was just a fun book and so I used to do it with my hyper quite often I like geometric tree house with my low group because that's a huge series if I can get them to see that that's a fun series then they're gonna put to read for a long time that's exciting at the end of the year one of my groups like would do the tales of a fourth grade math thing that was always fun lemonade Wars was another one I loved his lemonade wars for book club instead of read aloud because it has math problems in it for her to read out loud it's easier for her readers to see it so lemonade Wars worked out well with one of my higher reading groups or some my other favorites Clementine is a good one Guney Berg green if you don't read that out loud the music prep book clip for sure it's super fun and it's on the lower level too so lots of great books out there and you can go into my teacher Facebook groups if you're in them I have a Facebook group for second grade what for third one for fourth and one for fifth and go into those Facebook groups and now it's like what what books you like to use in your book clubs and you're gonna find so many different recommendations I would have kiddos some of my reluctant readers if you read like a puppy place book I tend to find that my kiddos like animals and that would get them interested and there's a ton of happy place and get in the corner book so if you could get them interested in that they'll have lots to read to themselves alright so if you have questions about book clubs I'll go ahead and answer those for a little bit right now I'm gonna go back to my first slide if you guys have questions that I can help you with book clubs that I didn't already answer then go ahead and feel free to put them here I've got a few more minutes I'm gonna be happy to help Wow but I hope that book clubs give you you know another idea what could duplicate at a certain smaller time so I have a lot of the I had a question like to do the kiddos have trouble keeping up with all the different books you're reading you've gotta read aloud to that independent reading and you've got book clubs and I've actually never had a problem with that but when I do go to read aloud to them or book clubs we do flip back a paper to and go okay what was happening oh yeah and then start reading but I think that's a skill that I want to teach my readers that you should do look back and just make sure so I haven't had a problem yet but it's always possible that you'll have a kiddo here or there who does and you might encourage him to do picture but the string is read to self time how to do small group lesson hands well it's gonna that's a tough line because every school every principal is going to have a different requirement for your lesson plans and mine I left my pretty baby sick it would say like every Monday and Wednesday I would say on Monday it's a rotation one meet with group such-and-such read from the book and I kept it the same I could keep all that part the same for weeks and then I would just add in my focus skill and it would just a complete graph of organizer so most of it stayed the same I just had to switch out the focus skill every two weeks and my principal was okay with that but every school and every principal is gonna be a little different those requirements I met with my reading groups mostly at a table I was more comfortable in that way one year we had to be on a carpet instead of the table it was harder for my kiddos to write and to longer getting out on clipboards of things but I think you just make do with what you got in your classroom I primarily taught third grade was some time in second but mostly third and then I was a substitute for many many years and I actually student taught in 12th grade I had some giveaways to do somebody needed to remind me I almost forgot that I need to give away some of my book club sets what do you do if a students absent that's a wonderful question and in general I find my kiddos caught up on their own and you can offer to let them take the book back to their seat and read it during their independent reading time to catch up but I did find that my kiddos would listen to what the students were telling them happened last time they read and sort of catching up on their own just let's say what if they missed part of your read aloud they tend to be able to catch up it's kind of like when your if you watch a soap opera but you miss Monday's show somehow on Tuesday you can always catch up and that's pretty much what I did but if you want to do something more and you could have the graphic organizers for them to complete during the independent reading to him okay so I do need you can me ask your questions by Ginny and some winners can't believe almost forgot all right this is a winner for the book club bundles so it's the fiction of the nonfiction put together so it's like fifty some graphic organizers for you and if you are on the light that you know then you're already enter to win me first winner is going to be Jenny Blackburn Jenny Blackburn Jenny you are my winner and you send me an email I will be able to send you resource and those of you who have won earlier in my video series I'll be sending out resources later today to all my winners so make sure you've sent me an email and you were one of my winners and if you missed any other videos you can catch them on my Facebook page not so one big teacher just click on the video tab all right I need two more winners so Jenny Blackburn was my first winner and my second winner is going to be Tori Anderson Fenton Tori T o RI Anderson Fenton you're gonna be my second winner you want to send me an email then I can get the book club bundle out to you later today when I send Tommy winners their prizes and I need one more winner so I have Jenny black iron and Tori Anderson Fenton and my third winner is going to be joseline and joseline and you are my third winner you've all won my book club bundle it's fiction and nonfiction graphic organizers free to use in your book clubs for the rest of you I went ahead and I put my book clubs on sale for just today today only they're 20% off see you can grab those at a discount if you're looking at possibly starting or revamping book clubs when you head back in January alright I have enough time for maybe two more questions if you have them I have really enjoyed doing these videos with you and I thank you for spending a little bit of your winter break with me I'm trying to read as quickly as I can sometimes the questions go too fast for me feel free to ask again if I didn't answer I will go ahead and attach a link to the description of this video as soon as I'm done with the live but I can I could drop one here now in the comments if you're on your phone link won't work and time done with the video but I will definitely update the video with a link to my book clubs on my MITB t store not so would be teacher so you guys are very welcome for the video so you very welcome and like I said I am going to push myself really hard to do a lot more videos in 2019 because this is what you are looking for what book clubs be good with homeschooling absolutely absolutely it'd be way more engaging than trying to do a bezel and much more cost-effective and for a homeschool teacher to because a novel is so much cheaper than reading curriculum so absolutely alright guys the schedule are you talking about the center schedule someone was asking about schedule this is my center schedule yes you can find that on my blog go to my blog Knox would be teacher and search ela and you'll find it you can search reading centers and you'll find it you can screenshot this to r8 well I am going to stake of my and I'm going to go ahead and my book club bud though is book club graphic organizers I have a fiction and nonfiction set and I bundled them together nope I don't meet once a week it's twice I mean twice a week with all my groups and yes I have a whole group lesson I did a whole video on it so you went ahead to my Facebook page just check that out alright I just drop the link to my book clubs but I'm gonna go ahead and update in this video description with a link and if you missed any of the videos go ahead and go to my Facebook page not so one be teacher and you can watch them click on the video tab and all five of them will be there I will add them to my youtube channel in January so guys thank you for spending some time with me and good luck as you head back to school next week I will be thinking about you happy very happy new years

Channel: Not So Wimpy Teacher

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Length: 49min 40sec (2980 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 05 2019