Faye Brownlie 
Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses [PDF ebook] 
A Unique Approach to Literature Circles

Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses is built upon the premise that all students can become active, independent, thoughtful readers. The structures and strategies in this book are proven to help students develop confidence and competence in their reading. Student engagement with text soars through participation in grand conversations with peers and reflecting on reading with thoughtful, written responses. This unique approach includes:student choice in booksstudents reading at their own pace, thus creating flexible groupsliterature circles where students discuss the shared text they are readingstrategies for teaching written responsestrategies for co-creating assessment criteriaadditional activities to develop and deepen comprehensionbook lists This new edition has been expanded to include examples and book lists for grades K to 12.