1. Reflecting on ourselves as book clubs
Interpretation Book Clubs

2. Inquiry Question to guide you
Today, our mini-lesson will be an inquiry, and investigation, exploring an important question: “What do book club members do in an effective book club that lifts the level of the club’s work?

3. Inquiry Questions to guide you
Today, our mini-lesson will be an inquiry, and investigation, exploring an important question: “What do book club members do in an effective book club that lifts the level of the club’s work?
1. What keeps the conversation about books going?
2. How does writing about reading fuel a book conversation?
3. What happens to the topics that a club member brings up?
4. What kinds of things are talked about?

4. Inquiry Questions to guide you
Today, our mini-lesson will be an inquiry, and investigation, exploring an important question: “What do book club members do in an effective book club that lifts the level of the club’s work?
1. What keeps the conversation about books going?
2. How does writing about reading fuel a book conversation?
3. What happens to the topics that a club member brings up?
4. What kinds of things are talked about?

5. What makes book clubs conversations the best they can be?
1. What keeps the conversation about books going?
2. How does writing about reading fuel a book conversation?
3. What happens to the topics that a club member brings up?
4. What kinds of things are talked about?
Try prompts like: “it is not only that, but also…” “And also,…”
Look interested
Make eye contact
Speak nicely, even when you disagree
Do some writing about reading and se Post its in your notebook before meeting with your club
Bring your reading notebook to the conversation
Ideas are repeated
Return to important examples in the book and study them together.
Talk about one person’s ideas, trying to say something new about the idea
Retell a part of the book with a lot of feeling
Think about why things happen
“maybe it is because…”

6. Prepare for book club Go back and reread
Look for important parts of your writing
Mark scenes to share

7. share

8. homework