After School Book Clubs

Book discussions have been around as long as the creation of books themselves, and provide opportunites for thinking abstractly, raising questions, and exploring topics of interest. Reading is an important part of a child's learning process because it paves a path for children to make connections between what they already know to what they read in stories.

Providing students in Title 1 school districts with an opportunity to be involved in after-school book clubs would be a beneficial way for at-risk students to obtain a healthy, fun, and stimulating way to spend their after-school hours.

Essentially the action plan for implementing these clubs in after school programs would be to take college students who love to teach and students who are having difficulty learning to read and put them together to create a fun atmosphere full of books.

Like literature circles in the classroom, belonging to the Book Club with provide opportunities for students to construct understandings about the process of learning. 

The college students will use the idea of kinesthetic learning  to teach the power of books through movement. Creating book covers, singing songs, acting the book out, or creating posters.