I've led a couple of book clubs for my grade 6 - 9 students. For our Stamped book club (coincided with Global Read Aloud), we used Google Slides. Many of them uploaded photos with speech bubbles at the beginning of the club with their thoughts before reading and we did the same at the end with our final takeaways. All of our resources were kept organized in the Slides. We met about 4 times via Zoom. 

Our second club is for The Rent Collector.  Since we all read the book at different times over our long Winter Recess, I made a Jamboard and students/teachers kept track of their "Quotes & Notes" as they read. We meet this Wednesday at 12:15 pm EST. That's super late for our Chinese participants, but that's what they wanted. My clubs include students from other countries, so time zone differences makes it extra tricky! 

Overall, I let students do as much of the talking as possible. We have all enjoyed our meetings so much. We picked up a few more students for The Rent Collector.

Enjoy,
~Val

Rumsey Hall School
Valerie DiLorenzo | Library Media Specialist
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:16 AM Baerny, Susan SMS Teacher - Library Media Specialist <baernys@newmilfordps.org> wrote:
Hello, My SLO includes having book clubs for remote learners only. Do any of you have any tips for hosting remote book clubs? The students have selected to read The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor. 
Thank you.

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