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

• Foreword Leyton Schnellert viii


• Preface Faye Brownlie x


• Acknowledgements xi


• Introduction 1
  
  
  
  • 1 Getting Started: Learning the Say Something Strategy 7
  
  
  • 2 The Books 11
  
  
  • 3 The Discussion Groups 19
  
  
  • 4 Response Journals 25
  
  
  • 5 Comprehension Activities 45
  
  
  • 6 Classroom Vignettes 83
  
  
  • 7 A Culminating Activity: Time for Celebration 117
  
  
  • 8 Assessment and Evaluation 123
  
  


• Appendix A : Literature circles Book Lists 135


• Appendix B : Bibliography 147

Leyton Schnellert, Ph D, (he/his/him) is an associate professor in UBC’s Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Eleanor Rix Professor in Rural Teacher Education. He focuses on how teachers and teaching and learners and learning can mindfully embrace student diversity and inclusive education. Dr. Schnellert is the Pedagogy and Participation research cluster lead in UBC’s Institute for Community Engaged Research, inclusive education research lead in the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship, and co-chair of BC’s Rural Education Advisory. His community-based collaborative work contributes a counter argument to top-down approaches that operate from deficit models, instead drawing from communities’ funds of knowledge to build participatory, place-conscious, and culturally responsive practices. Leyton works and learns on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Sinixt who were declared extinct by Canada’s government in 1956 and stands in solidarity with the Sinixt in their reclamation efforts.Leyton has been a middle and secondary years classroom teacher and a learning resource teacher for grades K–12. His books, films, and research articles are widely referenced locally, nationally, and globally.