Volume 1, Issue 15 – Reflective Literature Circles

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly.  Today we’ll be discussing the concept of reflective literature circles.

A powerful way to boost the effectiveness of literature circles and the ownership of the students participating in them is by leading students in a reflective process about the circles themselves. In an article for The Reading Teacher, professors from the University of South Carolina and Colorado State University discuss ways to help even young students become self-reflective.

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