Connect Your Members With a Book Club

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 2-2
Keyword(s):  
Book Club

Using a book club paradigm in the classroom

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth M. Schwartz ◽  
Holly Tatum
Keyword(s):  
Book Club

Preadolescent Advanced Readers: Exploring Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
April Walker ◽  
Janessa Bower ◽  
Todd Kettler
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Book Club ◽  
Attitudes Toward Reading ◽  
Identity Exploration ◽  
Cognitive Characteristics ◽  
Narrative Imagination ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Advanced Readers ◽  
Differentiated Learning

Despite dedication of tremendous resources to developing literary proficiencies, advanced readers may remain an underserved and understudied population. This qualitative study included nine preadolescent participants aged 10–12 years who demonstrated reading comprehension abilities within the top 10% on a national normed achievement battery. The researchers gathered interview data from participants with corroborating evidence from their parents and their book club teacher. The grounded theory analyses found advanced readers to demonstrate superior reading comprehension and the ability to read entire books quickly. Participants reported positive attitudes toward reading in general and preferred out of school reading over the limiting structures of school reading. Some evidence supported a connection between reading and identity exploration through narrative imagination and empathetic relations to characters and narratives. Advanced readers may present cognitive characteristics, as well as behaviors and motivations that require differentiated learning designs.

The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett et al.

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-355
Author(s):  
Sheila Liming
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Book Club

Winning Boys to Better Books

1937 ◽  
Vol 120 (9) ◽  
pp. 224-225
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Moore
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Book Club ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Level ◽  
Junior High School Level

How a lively Book Club improved the reading tastes of lads at Junior High School level.

scholarly journals ‘Something that makes us ponder’: A virtual book club in Central Queensland, 1928–38

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Buckridge
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Book Club ◽  
Basic Fact ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Reading Matter ◽  
Book Talk

When considering the question of reading provision in remote regions, Australian historians have tended to focus on the challenge of distributing books and other reading matter affordably across vast and sparsely populated areas. In the back-blocks of Western Queensland between the wars, however, the problem of distribution had been addressed with some success: by mail orders to metropolitan book retailers, subsidised postal rates, local Schools of Arts libraries, the Workers’ Educational Association and, above all, the efficient operations of the Queensland Bush Book Club, which performed extraordinary feats of remote distribution throughout the interwar period. Isolated booklovers could almost take for granted a steady — if somewhat limited and belated — supply of books to read. Two things they could not take for granted, however, were reliable, disinterested and informed advice about what books to choose (where choice was available) and — even more important — the opportunity to share their reading experiences with others. Walter Murdoch once said, ‘It is a basic fact that when you have read a book you want to talk about it.’ That may overstate the case a little, but there is no doubt that the desire to communicate the pleasures, occasional disappointments and sense of discovery in reading books — no matter how solitary the reading experience itself may have been — was and is very strong and widespread, and that single families or households did not then (and do not now) necessarily provide congenial environments for such ‘book talk’.

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