Literature Circle Homework Page



Literature Circle Homework Page: Discussion Director

Name _______________________________ Group______________Date_________

Book Title: _______________________________________

Author: __________________________________________

Assignment: page ________ through page _______

You are the discussion director. Your job is to write down some “fat” questions that you think your group would want to talk about. Use the sticky notes to mark the part. It might help for you to read it to your group to remind them.

1.________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

2.________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

3.________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

Literature Circle Homework Page: Connector

Name _______________________________ Group______________Date_________

Book Title: _______________________________________

Author: __________________________________________

Assignment: page ________ through page _______

You are the Connector. Your job is to find connections between the book and another book, your own life experience, and the world around us.

[pic]text to text [pic]text to self [pic]text to world

Some things today’s reading reminded me of were…

1.________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

2.________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

Literature Circle Homework Page: Artful Artist

Name _______________________________ Group______________ Date_________

Book Title: _______________________________________

Author: __________________________________________

Assignment: page ________ through page _______

You are the Artful Artist. Your job is to draw anything about the story that you liked. Try drawing one or more of these ideas: a story critical character, a story critical setting, a story critical object, a problem, an exciting part, a surprise, or a prediction of what will happen next.

Draw on the back of this page or on the paper provided. You may do any kind of drawing you like.

When your group meets, don’t tell what your drawing is. Let them guess and talk about it first. Then you can tell about it.

Literature Circle Homework Page: Passage Picker

Name _______________________________ Group______________ Date_________

Book Title: _______________________________________

Author: __________________________________________

Assignment: page ________ through page _______

You are the Passage Picker. Your job is to pick parts of the story that you want to read aloud to the group. You may choose a good part, a funny part, a scary part, an interesting part, some good writing, or a good description.

Be sure to use the sticky notes to mark the part you want to share. Or you can write the parts you want to share here.

Page Paragraph Why I liked it

_______ ________ ___________________________________

_______ ________ ___________________________________

_______ ________ ___________________________________

_______ ________ ___________________________________

_______ ________ ___________________________________

Literature Circle Homework Page: Word Finder

Name _______________________________ Group______________ Date_________

Book Title: _______________________________________

Author: __________________________________________

Assignment: page ________ through page _______

You are the Word Finder. Your job is to look for special words in the story. Look for words in the assigned pages that are new, different, strange, funny, interesting, important, or hard.

When you find a word that you want to talk about, mark it with a sticky note or write it down here:

Word Page Why I picked it

___________ ___ _____________________________________

___________ ___ _____________________________________

___________ ___ _____________________________________

___________ ___ _____________________________________

___________ ___ _____________________________________

When your group meets, help your friends talk about the words you have chosen. Things you can discuss:

How does this word fit in the story?

Does anyone know what this word means?

What does the dictionary tell us?

What does this word make you feel like?

Can you draw the word?

Literature Circle Homework Page: Reteller

Name _______________________________ Group______________ Date_________

Book Title: _______________________________________

Author: __________________________________________

Assignment: page ________ through page _______

You are the Reteller. Your job is to retell the part of the story that was included in the assignment. Summarize and also include all of the parts of a regular retell that were included in the pages you read such as:

Summary _________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

Setting ___________________________________________________

Characters ________________________________________________

Events ___________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

Problem/Solution ____________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

Author’s Purpose ____________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download