Literacy Circle Conversation Student Resources

After our last KPMG day (The Dragon's Den), I decided to create resources to help students understand their roles better. These I have linked to the updated script, which is now a Google Presentation.




This Presentation has become the end result of several scripts, reading reflections and storyboards my class has used throughout the year. My students found previous reflections and scripts time-consuming and without purpose. Having the script as a presentation provides the students' another opportunity to collaboratively process their thinking.

Below are the accompanying resources for LIT CIR CON. Each relates to the roles as described by Lauren Coccia in her paper Literature Circles and Their Improvement of
Comprehension.

I would like to point out that these are the roles being used by my Year 6 students as I believe they align with the key comprehension strategies students need to interact with texts in Year 6 and beyond. In other cooperative literacy activities similar to literacy circles, such as reciprocal reading, there are similar roles. However, in reciprocal reading, the text tends to be attacked in smaller chunks page-by-page. In literacy circles the text is approached as a whole by each student.





Please feel free to make copies and changes as you see fit.