Tuesday, December 13, 2011

book clubs are crashing and burning

So book clubs were exciting in the beginning, but a lot of these books are really hard, and without support, they really can't read them.  The Cay, Anne Frank, The Seems. They require a lot of background knowledge and vocabulary understanding in order to follow them.  Dexter isn't understanding the book at all, although I think if he can get into the action of the book he'll be ok. His letter was just a regurgiation of what I told them about the book, it didn't actually demonstrate what he'd read.  I feel so frustrated I don't know what to do.  How can I make the book clubs work? Or maybe they don't? Maybe they just need to focus on doing reading strategies with their own books?

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