Talking About Books - Lit Circles - Book Clubs

2015 Global Read Aloud six week curriculum begins October 5, 2015.  You can still vote for the junior books.  The Picture Book Study will be:Amy Krouse Rosenthal!
Junior Great Books is a commercial program that can be implemented by teachers, librarians, or volunteers, using shared inquiry to study great literature. The anthologies are usually long on traditional literature.
This is a link to stories from NPR about children's books.  Backseat Book Club ended December 2013.
Literature Circles Resource Center is a resource of the College of Education at Seattle University and has a great deal of information for teachers to implement literature circles in a classroom.
Description and guide to links about Literature Circles, Questioning the Author, and Reciprocal Teaching
Emily Manning hosts this bi-monthly podcast produced by IRA and NCTE and posted on the read-write-think website. The series includes recommendations for K-5, often a visit by students and or the authors. You can subscribe to the podcasts easily.
April 1, 2015 Winner Announced
Sheinkin, Steve (2014) Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, NY: Roaring Brook Press.
This website contains a downloadable pdf teacher's guide that illustrates how to set up Literature Circles - small discussion groups comprised of 4 to 5 students - and use them to teach the novels of Sharon Creech.
Author's website, but also links to a huge collection of Literature Resources. Could also be in multicultural and realistic fiction categories.