Book Clubs! Literature Circles for Middle School

Book Clubs. Just the name generates excitement, doesn't it? This unit contains everything you need to facilitate book clubs or literature circles in your upper elementary or middle school classroom.

In our classrooms, we foster book clubs once a nine weeks. We allow students to sit in bag chairs (which fit nicely in a big trash can in our classrooms) and eat snacks as they discuss the novel that they are all reading. They LOVE it, and they definitely grow as readers!

Section one contains book club meeting forms. Two book club preparation sheets are included which your students will use to prepare for the meeting. A book club discussion guide is also included. Groups will use this sheet to guide them through meetings. It gives them step by step instructions on how to hold their book club discussions.

This resource also includes project ideas that students can complete together at the last meeting once students have finished reading the novel. There are several projects for you to choose from. The first one included is a big project, and the others included are smaller. It’s up to you to decide which one to assign. You could assign each group the same project or differentiate among the groups.

This product also includes two short reading checks and final tests for 24 novels. The reading checks and tests are all printable. There are also links for each in Goggle Form format.

All of the work has been done for you.