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Literacy Circles

As I move into my new reading programme next week, week 7, I observed one of my colleagues taking a guided reading group where she used the literacy circles. The Literacy Circles reading programme has 6 different roles (Discussion director, passage picker, illustrator, summariser, word master and connector). Each reading lesson, students have different role each time, although there are only 6 roles, there maybe some roles where students share a role. Through discussion with my colleague, she explained the importance of modelling this reading programme with the whole class for the first week, using an article each lesson to model each of the roles. 

 Through discussions with the students, I asked, "What learning experiences have you gained from the Literacy Circles?"
Student Responses: 
"It allows us to dig deeper into the text"
"Makes us listen to our peers"
"Think more critically"
Group discussion sharing their ideas from the selected roles
they were given after the teacher guided reading lesson.
The six Literacy Circle roles


    
Notes on what this reading programme looks like.
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