Getting ready for our first Book Club meeting!

I am so impressed with your incredible reading!  You all seem very interested in your books.  We will set reading goals at our first meeting.  Here is how you can come prepared.

Prior to each meeting:

• Students are expected to prepare point form notes to answer the assigned questions based on their reading.  Use the bookmark provided by Mrs. B
• Each student is to create her own 2 questions for discussion, with his/her answers. (Share with me on Google Drive) 

•  Avoid literal/factual knowledge based questions that involve remembering without understanding, analysis, or evaluation.  (see the Q chart below)

Meeting #1 - ___:

1. What scene is the most impactful? Why?
2. Find a quote online (or from a text) that relates to the novel.   What connections can you make between the quote and the novel. (text to text, text to self, text to world, text to media)
3. Which character is the most interesting? Why?
4. Making predictions - what do you think will happen next?  Why?
5. Using the Q-Chart as your guide to higher level thinking questions, create 2 questions for your group. Prepare your answers, but share them only after each member has had a chance to answer the question.

Reading Strategy:  Questioning!   We have been learning about the importance ofquestioning.  Effective readers ask questions all the time when they are reading.  Asking questions helps you to understand what is happening in the text.
In class, we have been using a “Q Chart”.   This is a grid containing various question starters.   By using these question starters, we have identified which types of questions would be hand-type questions (a question that you can find the answer to right on a page in the text) or a higher level thinking question, or a brain-type of question.  These types of questions require a reader to use information that they find in the text ANDtheir own ideas to develop an effective answer.
Below is a copy of the Q chart.    When you are reading, what are some questions that you can develop about your book?