Hey, I'm Rebecca... a long-time book club member, here to share my VERY BEST tips to have the coolest book club ever!
I have enjoyed having a local book club with my friends and homeschool community for years. These are my best tips for starting a book club for children or with your homeschool co-op, plus tips for choosing the best books, hosting book club meet-ups, and my best ideas to make book clubs collaborative and sustainable.
'Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” ~Joyce Carol Oates Are you ready to learn how to start a book club? Reading can be an isolating experience, but reading in a community is a precious gift. Perhaps the isolation is what you like about reading? When you do it right, your entire being is transported to another world for a few hundred pages. To share your literary travels with another person allows you to connect deeply with them. If you find yourself among a small group of people
Learn how to start a book club that members will love. Read great books, make friends, and start a successful club that lasts.
Discover tips for how to gather your friends for a fiction or nonfiction book club, tips for how to lead a book club and keep conversations flowing, and find ideas for books to read with your group.
Book clubs in first grade?! It may seem like a stretch, but the Spring is such a great time to get your students ready and used to reading, thinking about, and discussing books with their peers instead of me, the teacher! When done right, it can be such a fun learning experience for both […]
So, you want to start a book club! Are you keen to explore exciting new reads and share them with a group of like-minded bookaholics? What a fabulous way to spend an evening! You’ve got the books in mind, the tea and Jaffa Cakes ready to be nibbled... but how on earth do you organise it?! Who do
Time to unlock how to get started with literature circles, book clubs in your upper elementary classroom. Learn how it benefits your students
I am positive I've written about the No-Stress Book Club before, but I cannot find it anywhere on my blog. Perhaps I wrote it for the school newsletter or LM_Net or something else? In any case, it would have been years since I wrote about it, so it needs an update anyway.
School counseling book clubs are an interesting group counseling option for school counselors looking to integrate academics and social emotional leanring.
Time to unlock how to get started with literature circles, book clubs in your upper elementary classroom. Learn how it benefits your students
Thinking of a name for your book club can be tricky. Here's 40 ideas to get you inspired when naming your awesome book club!
First, a great big “thank you!” for pulling all your badass friends and colleagues together for a virtual book club! Now more than ever, building connections to others is so important! Here are a just a few suggestions to help you prepare for your meeting! If you have other idea
In this blog post, I will share 51 bullet journal ideas for reading and books to get you started with your book club or personal reading
Want to get the girls together for monthly meetings but don't know where to start? Here's everything you need to know about starting your very own book club.
Let me help you learn how to make a collagraph with scrap matboard. Here are all the basics with video tutorials and process photos!
Do you want to start a speech therapy book club? Here are 7 books related to communication disorders and the clients we serve. Read on
Whether it’s a fun past-time or a way to enhance your writing career, starting a book blog is a great way to get the most out of your reading. Connect with like-minded readers, share your thoughts, improve your writing skills and indulge your love for all things bookish! Follow t
You can start, run and teach a chess club with a few, inexpensive supplies. There are 5 powerful reasons you need to start a chess club in your school today. The first being, chess is an excellent way to introduce or continue STEM or STEAM in your schools. Remove the fear of how to start, run a teach a chess club now.
One of the homeschool activities I'm asked about most is our Heritage Book Club. It's an off-shoot of the local support group I run for black homeschooled children and their families, and it's one of our most popular activities. We don't limit the children to one type of book, but most of the selections feature
Here's my step-by-step guide on how to start a book club as a beginner, whether you want a successful book club online or in person!
Blogging about books is the absolute best. Learn how to start a book blog as a hobby or one that makes money with TUL's book blogging for beginners tutorial.
For books you read with boozy companions, feminist book clubs, your local library book club, and more here are ideas for fun book club names.
Hoopla is a must-have app for audiobook fans because it lets you use your library card to get digital audiobooks!
I started a book club with three friends in August of 2008. The idea came up at my birthday dinner, my friend Priya to my right and my friend Rachel across the table. They didn't know one another, but engaged in a lively bookish discussion. There was wine involved. A few days later we confirmed that we were all still interested, we added Nora, and Book Club was born. Eventually we grew to a group of seven, and we met for almost six years before cross-country moves and babies and jobs forced us to regroup. But without a doubt, book...
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. This month for Virtual Book Club for Kids we are spotlighting Nick Sharratt. Each month we select a new book by our featured author to share. We always read
Wanting to revamp your independent reading program? Try using a classroom book club, which is a great way to enrich, engage, and differentiate in secondary.
This little one cut 'Mihi/Pepeha' booklet is a great scaffold to support your students with learning their mihi! The small size is perfect for holding discretely in your palm for quick reference during assembly or in class, and the pictures provide extra guidance for your little ones. Simply print, fill in and colour, then follow the picture instructions to cut, fold and assemble your little booklet. If you'd like more room for your students to explore their whakapapa, I suggest enlarging and printing your sheet on to A3 paper - this will provide more room for your children to add notes and extra illustrations as applicable. Also included is a themed colouring page to support your discussions about some of the items mentioned in the booklet. Click here to download your free copy! For a COLOUR version click here! *Please note - there a variety of different mihi formats included, so make sure you print the one that's most suitable to your region. ** Does your school use a different order or format? Leave me a comment and I'll try to include it in the download :-) Grubbily yours,
Annotate books to fully experience each book and make it your own. Writing comments, including drawings or illustrations, and conversing with the text makes the experience of reading much more fun.
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One of the first projects my first graders made were these “All About Me Crayons”. I had seen and taught this lesson probably 10 years ago and decided to revisit it. I can not remember exactly where I saw this idea, but as many lessons are, we get ideas and see projects all over the place. I try to credit when I can, but some of these I have been doing so long! We started the day by reading … Read more... →
I love Pinterest. I can spend hours on it, just looking at things. I can find ideas for ANYTHING on there! Recipes, funny and/or inspirational sayings, and photos of places I want to visit. I’…
This is my second post in my eight post series about implementing book clubs into your classroom. Last week, I wrote an Introduction to Book Clubs, which you can read more about HERE. Today, I am writing about some of the many benefits of implementing book clubs into your classroom. Although there are so many […]
January is rolling along and my kids (both my school and actual kids) are finally readjusted to our routine after winter break. While in real life, I find January-March the three most difficult months to
One of the best feelings as a reader/blogger is when someone takes your recommendation and actually loves it as much as you! It’s honestly kind of rough to give a recommendation because, like all things, not every book works for every person. I thought I’d challenge myself to recommend at least one book for every letter of the alphabet. Here’s what I came up with…
When I started my book group this summer I knew I wanted a simple way to organize our communications without the clumsiness of a bunch of email threads and reply-alls. Someone recommended Facebook Groups and it really has made it very easy to schedule meeting times, post about books and keep track of RSVPs. Yes, […]
Instagram is a massive platform that is growing by the day with users spreading worldwide. There are niches galore, with hundreds of thousands of users coming together to share their passions. I assume you've clicked on this link because you want to join them and create a Bookstagram account, the corner of Instagram dedicated to
The behavior basics book club was created to help teach students the basics of behavior through childhood classic books. Each book has activities to start the discussion and teach the behaviors to create a strong foundation in your classroom. Use this book club activity to teach students the importance understanding needs. This lesson is based on the book Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts This story is a story about a boy who really wants a pair of shoes that his grandmother cannot afford. This story teaches students the difference between a want and a need. Want to see a detailed description of what is included? And a Video???? Read more on my BLOG! Included in this bundle: -Reading lesson plans -Anchor chart activities (b&w and color) -Reading response (writing and illustrated responses) -Directed Drawing Activities -Labels for easy organization Do you want the complete Behavior Basics Book Club? Check out the DISCOUNTED BUNDLE *****Looking for more instruction on this behavior? Check out the pairing Behavior Basics Lesson****** *****Stay up to date and keep in touch****** BLOG! Facebook Instagram Pinterest Email me: [email protected]
If you love books & reading, you've got to start a Bookstagram account! Here's everything you need to know about how to start a Bookstagram.
