Getting Started With Literature Circles (Bill Harp Professional Teachers Library) [Paperback]

Katherine L. Schlick Noe (Author), Nancy J. Johnson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 116 pages
• Publisher: Christopher-Gordon Pub (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0926842978
• ISBN-13: 978-0926842977
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #658,208 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katherine Schlick Noe taught high school English and reading in Zillah, Washington and now teaches graduate literacy courses at Seattle University for beginning and experienced teachers. She grew up on Indian reservations in Washington and Oregon where her father was a forester with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The family also lived near Washington, DC. Her debut novel, Something to Hold, is inspired by her childhood experiences on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon in the 1960s. It will be published by Clarion in 2011. Katherine is the co-author of four professional books on literature circles and is webmaster of the Literature Circles Resource Center http://www.litcircles.org. Learn more at her website: http://katherineschlicknoe.com.

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54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very practical!, May 11, 2000

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This review is from: Getting Started With Literature Circles (Bill Harp Professional Teachers Library) (Paperback)

I am new at starting Literature Circles in my classroom, and this book gave me very practical suggestions that I could implement right away. I especially liked the examples given of charts that a teacher could use in his or her classroom. The book gives hints all the way from focus lessons and good books to begin with, to ideas for reading responses. A reader can take this book and go step by step in creating Literature Circles for his or her students. It was one of the most helpful books on this subject that I have read.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource for Implementing Literature Circles!, August 19, 2002

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Laura Candler (Fayetteville, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Started With Literature Circles (Bill Harp Professional Teachers Library) (Paperback)

I have been using various approaches to Literature Circles for about 7 years, and this is one of the best books I've read on the subject. Instead of teaching one specific technique, the authors present a variety of methods for implementing Literature Circles. Many of the strategies were new to me, and all of them were very practical and appear easy to implement. One theme that runs through the book is the need to find out what works in your classroom. The companion book, Literature Circle Resource Guide, is also extremely useful as it provides many time-saving forms and handouts. I can't wait to start using these strategies in my classroom.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Getting Started With Literature Circles, August 15, 2001

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This review is from: Getting Started With Literature Circles (Bill Harp Professional Teachers Library) (Paperback)

I was disappointed in the book. I came away with a few parctical suggestions, but a 5 page essay could have given me the gist. The rest of the book was repetitious and superfcial.Having mentioned something important, for instance, lke evaluating the readability of a book, they then simply referred the reader another book. The authors seemed to spend time every chapter stating that how a teacher uses their information will depend a great deal on the teacher and his/her students. Of course it does. Just say it once. It was almost as if they were hedging their bets. Compare this to a literacy book written by Lucy Caulkins and it really seems elementary.