Riley's Rapscallions @ Eagle Bluff

WHAT IS IT?

Reader's Circle is a comprehensive, literature based discussion group that requires children to read one book per week for a month long cycle.  In that month, children have the opportunity to select from a collection of books.  It is recommended and encouraged that children learn how to pace themselves by counting the number of pages of their selected book, and then dividing by 7 in order to guide them through the required reading each night in order to complete the book by Wednesday of each week.  

Further, hrough literature circles, a variety of goals and objectives are achieved:

•Children have an opportunity to interact with parents on a new dimension, which gives both sections of the population a unique perspective on one another; 

•Many reading skills are achieved through the programming, including characterization, predicting, inferring, story development and values enhancement;

•Students complete 30 age appropriate and higher novels throughout the course of the year; 

•The instructor, through conversations with facilitators, is able to be more responsive to student/parent needs via the communication link that is created as a part of the team teaching approach;

•Based upon smaller numbers in discussion groups, each child is given “a voice” and feels valued in the circle;

•Students who move at a slower pace are given the opportunity to peer read, or read with an adult facilitator; 

•Parents have an opportunity to experience and become advocates for quality education in a public school.