For Assessment #1, six items are due: KWL Color coded textmap scroll of a textbook chapter Four Square Graphic vocabulary strategy used on 5 words from your textbook chapter Two circle Venn diagram co

Shared Reading Groups

(This will be a section in your portfolio)

1. Find a book (at least one hundred pages) that you’d like to read with others. It can be any book: fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, children’s literature, poetry, etc.

2. Find people in class who want to read your book with you.

3. If you can’t find anyone who wants to read your book, join a group that is reading a different book you might enjoy. Check the Shared Reading discussion board on Canvas to see the groups and their books. You can add yourself to a group or start a group and invite others to join.

4. Once your group decides on a book, buy, download, or borrow a copy the book so you each have your own copies.

5. Members of your group will read and discuss the book each week.

6. Use the Canvas Shared Reading discussion board to document your discussions. Please keep in mind, you are documenting your authentic discussions, not summarizing the book.

7. If you don’t like your book or you don’t like your group, you can to switch to a different group and start reading and discussing their book.

8. Discussions can go off topic – just like they would if you were discussing a movie you just saw with friends. The book will remind to of other things that you can talk about. Ask your group members interesting questions that connect the book you are reading to your own lives and experiences. What does it remind you of? What’s confusing? What’s good? What does it all mean? Why should you care? What was the author thinking? Etc, etc., etc…