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Meet with students to form groups of four to five. Distribute books to each group of students. Set up a schedule of seven meeting dates for book clubs. If you already have a weekly independent reading session or reading workshop scheduled, you might have the book clubs meet at this time.
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Have each group agree on a portion of the text to read prior to the next meeting. Explain that they need to divide the book into four sections. Check to make sure students are dividing the sections somewhat evenly.
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Distribute copies of the Collaborative Homework Questions and instruct students to keep these in a book club folder or other reading folder.
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Briefly introduce the wiki to the class, explaining the layout and showing students how to navigate the site and post comments. Model how to log on with a username and password, and then give students their personal usernames and passwords. Have several students try logging on and posting. Give students the URL for the wiki and suggest that they bookmark the site.
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Give students independent reading time in class to begin their books. |
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