EC Ning Book Club: "Book Whisperer"
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This is the group created for the ECN Book Club discussion led by Donalyn Miller about her wonderful book "The Book Whisperer."
Members: 120
Latest Activity: Nov 26
Book Club Discussion Suggestions
We have learned, after a few other book club discussions, a few things that help everyone involved:
1. Do not open up your own separate discussion strands within the book group; this undermines cohesive discussion and makes it difficult for the author to know where to give attention. Only Donalyn or I (as ECN facilitator) should create a new discussion strand within the book club group.
2. Begin your posts, when appropriate, by referring to those whose posts you are responding to. For example: "Jan raised some interesting points about boys and reading in her previous post which I wanted to discuss..."
3. We will close off a discussion thread at about 50 and start a new one as we have found that after 50 posts it becomes difficult to navigate. These will be labeled something like "Week 1 Discussion #1," "Week 1 Discussion #2" and so on.
4. You can quickly access the ECN Book Club discussion for this book through the main page or the link under the menu tab marked "Notes/Events" as well as any links to the discussion you see elsewhere on the site.
1. Do not open up your own separate discussion strands within the book group; this undermines cohesive discussion and makes it difficult for the author to know where to give attention. Only Donalyn or I (as ECN facilitator) should create a new discussion strand within the book club group.
2. Begin your posts, when appropriate, by referring to those whose posts you are responding to. For example: "Jan raised some interesting points about boys and reading in her previous post which I wanted to discuss..."
3. We will close off a discussion thread at about 50 and start a new one as we have found that after 50 posts it becomes difficult to navigate. These will be labeled something like "Week 1 Discussion #1," "Week 1 Discussion #2" and so on.
4. You can quickly access the ECN Book Club discussion for this book through the main page or the link under the menu tab marked "Notes/Events" as well as any links to the discussion you see elsewhere on the site.
Discussion Forum
Thing learned...and things reivistited 1 Reply
Started by MaryAnn Wedde. Last reply by Donalyn Miller Oct 28.
Book Whisperer Discussion Week #3: Cutting the Teacher Strings 20 Replies
Started by Donalyn Miller. Last reply by Judy King Oct 25.
Book Whisperer Discussion Week #2: Walking the Walk 70 Replies
Started by Donalyn Miller. Last reply by Beth Stauter Oct 17.
Book Whisperer Discussion Week #1: Creating a Classroom Where Readers Flourish (2) 38 Replies
Started by Donalyn Miller. Last reply by Donalyn Miller Oct 11.
Book Whisperer Discussion Week #1: Creating a Classroom Where Readers Flourish 59 Replies
Started by Donalyn Miller. Last reply by Donalyn Miller Oct 6.
PRE-Discussion Questions for Donalyn Miller and Book Club 32 Replies
Started by Jim Burke. Last reply by Jim Burke Oct 4.
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