READING CIRCLES

Collaborative reading & work project

GENERAL AIMS OF THIS PROJECTINDIVIDUAL AIMS:

To read the book and fully understand it while you work on your individual tasks.

COLLABORATIVE AIMS:

To Communicate effectively To Comment on

To connect To ask

To discuss To evaluate

GROUPSWe are going to create different groups.

Each group is going to have 4 members.

Each member of the group is going to have a

different role.

ROLES The discussion leader

The summarizer

The word master and culture collector

The passage person

What is the job of each role?

The Discussion Leader has to:

Ask questions to start the Reading Circle discussion.

Make sure everyone speaks and joins the discussion.

Guide or lead the discussion and keep it going.

The Word Master & Culture Collector has to:

Look for differences and similarities between his/her own culture or other stories he/she has read and the culture in the story and his /her personal or close experiences.

Tell the group about the connections and ask them questions about any other cultural points in the story.

Look for words or short phrases that are new or difficult to understand or that are important in the story.

Explain the meanings of these words in simple English to the group.

The Passage Person has to:

Find important, interesting or difficult passages.

Make notes about the (two or three) passages that are important for the plot or that explain the characters or that have very interesting or powerful language.

Read each passage to the group.

Ask the group one or two questions about each passage.

ORGANIZATION Each group has 4 different members

with a different role.

The students with the same role work together.

Once they finish their work together they go back to the main group to discuss, share and comment their information.

ORGANIZATION – STEP 0-

DISCUSSION LEADER

SUMMARIZER

WORD MASTER + CULTURE COLLECTOR

PASSAGE PERSON

GROUP 1 GROUP 2 GROUP 3

DISCUSSION LEADER

SUMMARIZER

WORD MASTER + CULTURE COLLECTOR

PASSAGE PERSON

DISCUSSION LEADER

SUMMARIZER

WORD MASTER + CULTURE COLLECTOR

PASSAGE PERSON

ORGANIZATION – STEP 1 –

Groups with the same roles

DISCUSSION LEADERS(from all the groups)

SUMMARIZERS(from all the groups)

WORD MASTERS + CULTURE COLLECTORS

(from all the groups)

PASSAGE PERSONS(from all the groups)

Go back to your ORIGINAL GROUP:

discuss, share

and comment your information.

ORGANIZATION STEP 2 FILL IN THE

WORKSHEET

TO GATHER

INFORMATION

STEP 3

ORGANIZATION – STEP 4-

Fill in the sum-upworksheet with themost relevant

aspectsof the chapter/story:

The plot pyramidThe themeThe time and placeThe analysis of charactersThe cultural information

and connectionsThe language

ALL THE GROUPS WORK TOGETHER

ORGANIZATION – STEP 5 -

Final project:

Group project: Each group creates a specific project with the most relevant information.

Individual project: Write texts about different aspects of the story to be published on the school web page.

ORGANIZATION –

Self-evaluation + evaluation of other people’s work and attitudes.