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Literature circles
By Chris Young

I use literature circles in my sixth-grade reading class, and love them. It affords my students the opportunity to talk about what they are reading, hear what others are thinking, and to clarify some ideas. The roles my students use are discussion director, who develops a list of open-ended questions to discuss, connector, who finds connections between the book and their lives, another book, or in the outside world, literary luminary, who locates special parts of the reading to be reviewed, and illustrator, who draws a picture related to the reading. I have also has the vocabulary buster, who finds unfamiliar vocab. Hope this helps!