Book Club Synthesis

I never would have thought to implement a book club lesson in my future classroom. As a science and social studies content area teacher, it seemed that there aren’t really any narrative type books that would be beneficial for my students to learn the curriculum. I’ve only ever seen book clubs being used in my literature classes when I was in school. However, this chapter gives great insight as to why book clubs can be beneficial for every classroom, no matter what content area. 

Book clubs can be very fun and exciting because students get the choice to choose their own book, their own involvement, and determine their own discussion in the book clubs. As a teacher, I would help them learn how to lead literacy discussions about a book in order for my students to become independent literary commentators. Maybe before having individual book clubs, a class-wide book club could be beneficial to model what the group-led book clubs will look like.

I like that students get to determine their own role, whether it be connector, questioner, passage master, vocabulary enricher, illustrator, and researcher. Students can contribute these roles by completing sticky notes to comment on what they read. This will give concrete ideas for them to discuss with the rest of their book club in class. Literacy practices are useful in any content area, and books that explore the untouched areas of a discipline can be very engaging and exciting for students in science, social studies, and math classes.

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