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Using
SIBL in Your Book Groups
Prepared
by:
Lynne Price
Project
Read
San Francisco Library
Advice
for new book groups
Background:
Every month since our book group began in January 2001, tutors and
learners have met in one of the public library's reading rooms to
discuss that month's selected book. In June 2002, the group will
discuss one of the song-inspiring books from SIBL's Chapter One
CD: a novel called Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathon Lethem.
Participants:
Book group members are pairs of Project Read learners and tutors,
and the group generally numbers between fifteen and twenty-five
people.
Objectives:
1)
To allow adult learners to become part of the reading community
2) To strengthen reading, writing, thinking and comprehension
skills
3) To build confidence and be a support to other adult learners
Materials
Used:
Name labels - given to all participants, felt-tip pens, registration
sheet Copies of the book and the corresponding audio tape (best
to use unabridged versions if available)
Questions to guide the reading, handed
out at the previous meeting
A sheet of information about Tourette�s Syndrome (source: the internet)
SIBL Chapter One CD � the song TELL YOUR STORY WALKING
CD player
Print-out of the lyrics of TELL YOUR
STORY WALKING
Book review sheet
Session:
- Group
members sign the registration sheet and write their names on the
label.
- If
there is a new member (which is almost always the case!), everyone
introduces themselves briefly, around the circle.
- To
begin this particular session, everyone gets a copy of the lyrics
to the song TELL YOUR STORY WALKING
.
- The
group listens to the song on the CD, and then discusses it.
- Participants
call out new words that they met in the book, which the facilitator
writes up on the flip chart.
- Everyone
discusses the book. The list of questions
is a useful reference but does not limit the conversation.
- If
people listened to the audio cassette, they compare it with the
book.
- At
the end of the session, each member reviews the book on the sheet
provided
My
Final Thoughts On This Book
Reader: Pretend you are a book critic � would you encourage
others to read this book? Was it well written or not? An engaging
and well-thought out story? Take a few moments to write your overall
thoughts about this book.
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