Book Club Plus: A Conceptual Framework to Organize Literacy Instruction

Abstract

Book Club Plus, designed by the Teachers’ Learning Collaborative, a practitioner inquiry network, provides an organization framework for literacy instruction. Designed to promote student engagement and ownership of the literacy process while at the same time include traditional skills instruction, Book Club Plus is a thematically linked framework divided into two contexts, book club and literacy block, which combine literature discussion and appreciation with focused instruction and practice with skills and strategies. The authors illustrate how the framework supports diverse learners with three examples from a third-grade class.