Literature Circles

On Tuesday we had a Genius Hour from Assem. It was great! Previously, I didn't know about literature circles. Assem told for us what are the literature circles and what are the benefits of using literature circles in the classroom? Literature circles mean to attract students in rich conversations about shared readings.

To identify what literature circles are take a look at the following chart

Literature circles are really fun. Groups of students meet together in different areas of the classroom. The teachers ask students to take on specific group roles, which are designed to develop reading, speaking, and thinking abilities. There are a lot of different roles. Here, you can see four roles which you can use in your class.

Moreover, I found advantages to use literature circles. Firstly, every student can participate in conversation and they can express their opinions and questions about a text. Secondly, each of the students try out various roles and learn ways to talk about a text and it's so cool! We can use literature circles at schools and universities, e.g. my groupmate Olga had found interesting and useful video Teaching strategies for introducing literature circles to a 4th grade class. At this video you can see  how literature circles work in school. You can see this video in Applied Linguistics Blog by Olga Bainova.

I will try to use literature in all my classes in the future and I want to say thank you Assem for sharing your experience about literature circles with me.

References:
https://www.teachervision.com/group-work/teaching-methods/48704.html
http://homeschool101.org/blog/reading-writing/literature-circles/
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/literature-circles-how-to-and-reasons-why-elena-aguilar