Literature Circles

Through my experience with literature circles I feel this would be great to use in my classroom. I think it can be very beneficial to students and they would gain a lot in participating. The literature circle with my group went really well. I got a better understanding of what they are all about. I learned some things from my group members and if we were not sure what was going on or had a question, we were able to work together and come up with an answer. Literature circles should start as early as kindergarten and first grade. The more children are exposed to literature circles the more they will actively get involved in the book they are reading involuntarily. For older grades, sixth and seventh, literature circles can build up to something even deeper. As we read the article in our previous class it talked about the different roles students could play, for example: The Connector, the Vocabulary Enricher, and The Investigator. All of these “roles” are great for students and would help them see they are a big part of something. I think this would teach them responsibility. It will also help them in their upcoming school days because they will have more of an insight of what literature circles are all about. By having literature circles in my classroom, I would hope that my students would gain more knowledge about what they are reading, learn from their peers, become better readers, begin to think critically, expand their vocabulary, learn to work with other cooperatively with others, and so much more. Literature circles are a great tool to use in the classroom and would be very beneficial.