Homeschool Reading, Book Clubs & Organic Learning
The Book Club Game engages and highly motivates small group lessons ideal for homeschooling to teach the major comprehension strategies with any book. It is a catalyst for Homeschool “Book Clubs” to ignite socialization in a most efficient and meaningful way in sharing lives through comprehension and communication building while sparking a genuine love for reading. The format uses multiple learning modalities and discussion that involves all players equally, rewards listening carefully and truly builds a peaceful venue for organic learning. The games and journals are aligned with many of The Common Core Standards; its best teaching practices make it a game loved by those of all ages.
The Book Club Game allows homeschoolers consistent building, practice and reinforcement of all the comprehension levels. The strategies used not only build critical thinking, but ensure the transfer of these thinking levels and focus to other reading through generic, reusable activities. The different levels of comprehension and story elements are coded on each yellow comprehension card in the game and within the journals for parents and students to understand; the generating of the knowledge level questions and the generic form of the higher levels questions create a learning process that can be internalized and reused with all reading. This is explained fully in Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Story Elements. Homeschoolers can build their comprehension and critical thinking skills individually with the Journals for their age level and then bring their journal to a Book Club Meeting.
Book Club Meetings can be designed using the games with other homeschoolers’ families and/or any part of communities such as senior citizens, businesses or organizations. Socialization and learning about others through reading is maximized.
Homeschoolers can take advantage of the organic learning offered through the game and journal with its link from literature to research and informational reading and writing, the vocabulary building from books being read, the gleaning of inspiration to put into positive actions and the peer sharing of favorite books that is actualized by forming a personal booklist. The games and journals take on a new life with each book read and played.
