Book Tasting and Literature Circle Activities

Graphic organizers for book tasting/sampling and literature circle activities. Motivate your secondary ESL learners to read books by completing these engaging graphic organizers while you are hosting a book tasting activity in the school library at the beginning of the year or running literature circles/book clubs during the school year.

In the downloaded zip file, you will find 4 visually appealing activities that will encourage your learners to engage in the response process:

1. Choice Novel Book Tasting

• Beginning of the year or term
• Activity: Choosing a novel learners would like to read during independent reading.

2. First Chapter Book Tasting

• First Chapter Book Tasting graphic organizer for independent reading. 
• Learners are required to read the first chapter of a novel. 

3. Alternate ending

• Use this activity when your students finished reading their choice novel or several novels. 
• Activity: Proposing an alternate ending to a chosen novel. 
• An editable assessment grid is also included. 

4. Literature Circle Book Tasting, Sign-Up Sheet, and Literature Circle Roles Worksheets

• The Literature Circle Book Tasting: Learners need to decide as a team which of the available books they choose for the literature circle activities. 
• Included: 4 literature circle role worksheets to completed while reading and to be used during reading workshops/literature circles. 
• An optional final reflection sheet is also included.

⭐Best uses:

• beginning of the year or term (Choice Novel Book Tasting and Literature Circle Activities)
• during the year (Alternate Ending Narrative Writing Activity and First Chapter Book Tasting; Literature Circle Roles worksheets).
• independent reading
• reading workshops
• literature circles

This resource is more appropriate for grade 8-11 ESL learners; however, it might also be useful for ELA students.

⭐FILE DETAILS: Paper size: 8.5" x 11" (Standard US Letter). Documents are not editable unless otherwise stated. Resources are available either in a PDF or PPT file.

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