Download or read book The Book Club Connection written by Susan I. McMahon and published by New York : Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive text about beliefs, issues, and practices at the forefront of literacy education--language, ethnic, and academic diversity; authentic assessment; and social construction of meaning and knowledge--explored through the lens of a cohesive instructional design, the Book Club Program. It presents a pedagogical model based on a five-year project combining the work of teachers and researchers. The book is divided into three parts: foundations, classroom implementation issues, and teacher case studies. Thoughtful between-chapter commentaries by outside scholars bring multiple perspectives to the program's merits. Just as it is important for professors, researchers, and other educators involved in literacy and teacher education, it will also be useful for K-8 reading teachers. Section I (The Book Club Program Foundations and Components) includes the following 5 chapters and commentary: "The Book Club Program: Theoretical and Research Foundations" (Susan I. McMahon and Taffy E. Raphael); "Classrooms As Communities: Features of Community Share" (Taffy E. Raphael and Virginia J. Goatley); "Reading in the Book Club Program" (Susan I. McMahon); "When Readers Write: The Book Club Writing Component" (Taffy E. Raphael and Fenice B. Boyd); "Book Clubs: Contexts for Students to Lead Their Own Discussions" (Susan I. McMahon); and "Commentary: Learning to be Literate: Reconciling Convention and Invention" (Gordon Wells). Section 2 (Extending Research on the Book Club Program) includes 5 chapters: "Talk About Text Among Special Education Students" (Virginia J. Goatley); "Exploring the Use of Book Club with Second-Language Learners in Mainstream Classrooms" (Cynthia H. Brock); "The Cross-Aged Literacy Program: Preparing Struggling Adolescents for Book Club Discussions" (Fenice B. Boyd); "Assessment Research in the Book Club Program" (Tanja L. Bisesi and Taffy E. Raphael); and "Students Speak: Book Club from Our Perspective" (Christi Vance, Justin Ross, and Jenny.