The book club connection : literacy learning and classroom talk / edited by Susan I. McMahon and Taffy E. Raphael with Virginia J. Goatley and Laura S. Pardo ; foreword by Bernice E. Cullinan.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-340) and index.
Contents
The Book Club Program : theoretical and research foundations / Susan I. McMahon and Taffy E. Raphael -- Classrooms as communities : features of community share / Taffy E. Raphael and Virginia J. Goatley -- Reading in the Book Club Program / Susan I. McMahon -- When readers write : the Book Club writing component / Taffy E. Raphael and Fenice B. Boyd -- Book clubs : contexts for students to lead their own discussions / Susan I. McMahon -- Commentary: Learning to be literate : reconciling convention and invention / Gordon Wells -- Talk about text among special education students / Virginia J. Goatley -- Commentary / Carol Sue Englert -- Exploring the use of Book Club with second-language learners in mainstream classrooms / Cynthia H. Bock -- Commentary / Robert Rueda -- The cross-aged literacy program : preparing struggling adolescents for book club discussions / Fenice B. Boyd -- Commentary / Donna E. Alivermann -- Assessment research in the Book Club Program / Tanja L. Bisesi and Taffy E. Raphael -- Commentary / Elfrieda H. Hiebert -- Students speak : Book Club from our perspective / Christi Vance [and others] -- Commentary / P. David Pearson -- Reflective teaching for continuing development of Book Club / Laura S. Pardo -- Commentary / Dorothy Strickland -- Book Club through a fishbowl : extensions to early elementary classrooms / Pam Scherer -- Commentary / Lee Galda -- They can do it too! : Book Club with first and second graders / Kristin Walden Grattan -- Commentary / Barbara M. Taylor -- Book Club : the content-area connection / Kathy Highfield and Julie Folkert -- Commentary / Karen K. Wixson -- A portfolio approach to Book Club assessment : navigating instruction and monitoring student growth / Julie Folkert and Sara Bean -- Commentary / Kathryn H. Au.
Summary
A look at literacy instruction explored through the book club program.