Recess, a Time for Literacy Circles?
A young struggling reader became so enthralled with literature circles that he initiated his own. He loved reading and discussing books with his friends like the teacher had trained his class to do during Literacy Circles. So, he convinced his friends (all struggling readers and all boys) to buy a book of their choice at the school book fair and read together out at recess.
In his fourth grade teacher’s words:
“I have a group of boys in my class and one of them is a[n] extremely low reader and I don’t know if he has ever tried reading a chapter book or anything like that, and they made their own literature circle. Like they would talk about the book at recess and they all bought the same book at a book fair . . . and they would discuss it. He would tell me, ‘It’s getting really good!”