{"id":70,"date":"2009-12-28T22:40:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryramblings.wordpress.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2009-12-28T22:40:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:40:57","slug":"school-book-club-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"School Book Club Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going to be starting a book club at school! My principal and assistant principal came to me a little while back and we talked about starting book clubs with some of our students. They came upon the idea after reading about <a title=\"Lit Blitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litblitz.com\/\">Lit Blitz<\/a>, a competitive reading incentive book club. After some of the articles that I&#8217;ve been reading about students needing to get away from being rewarded for being &#8220;smart&#8221; and the overuse of incentive programs (I&#8217;ve been reading the November\/December edition of Knowledge Quest, FYI), I&#8217;m really thinking hard about the direction we should take this. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll be going with the Lit Blitz model, but I am thankful that it planted the seed for our club.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still in the brainstorming\/idea bouncing stages, but here&#8217;s my direction so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorporate an online discussion board (perhaps BlackBoard, since our district has the program) that students access from home during their reading process.<\/li>\n<li>Pull in nonfiction passages that pertain to fiction that we&#8217;re reading.<\/li>\n<li>Have some type of hands-on\/creative activity for the discussion meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Really address teaching students how to participate in a discussion, not just answer questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This should be lots of fun and I can&#8217;t wait to get this thing started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going to be starting a book club at school! My principal and assistant principal came to me a little while back and we talked about starting book clubs with some of our students. They came upon the idea after reading about Lit Blitz, a competitive reading incentive book club. After some of the articles<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=70\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}