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LIT GROUPS
By srw

I did a similar thing as far as "jobs". However, instead of mine having a different job each day, mine had a different job each week. I had my students (18) divided into 4 different reading groups, depending on the book
they choose. Each day they did one of the following:
1--Job card (as explained in previous posts...I had a Discussion Director, Illustrator, Connector, Word Wizard)
2--Meet with me...I arranged this so that each group would meet with me the day after they had job cards. Therefore, I got to sit in and listen to all their discussions, answer any questions and give them some discussion

questions of my own. We might also read some of the book together during this time.
3--Comprehension assignment (this was typically a weekly reader type assignment)
4--silent reading (they were assigned a certain number of pages to read in their book during this time.)
5--Lit. activiy--this was a written response to a question, venn diagram of characters, an acrostic of characters, etc

It worked well and they managed it wonderfully. I also had DEAR time everyday where we would DROP EVERYTHING AND READ for 30 minutes a day. During this time they would read their self-selected book. They also had to read 20 minutes a night.

Every morning they would come in and journal a response to the 20 minutes they read the night before. I checked them at the end of the week, to make sure that they were keeping up with their reading and comprehending what they read. I gave
them a 25pt grade for journals.

Between lit sets we would do some whole class activities and read some out of the basal.
(I was new last year so I tried a variety of things.)

Hope some of this is helpful.
Let me know if any of it is confusing.