Book Club Articles

Learn more about the research and developmental studies behind the Book Club methodology.

Below are links to research articles and abstracts written by Book Club authors. The links are housed at the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) Web site, an organization dedicated to understanding the learning and teaching of reading.


Understanding Culture in Our Lives and Work:
Teachers' Literature Study in the Book Club Program

(Abstract)

By: Taffy E. Raphael, Karen Damphousse, Kathy Highfield, and Susan Florio-Ruane


Book Club Workshop:
Learning about language and literacy through culture

By: Taffy E. Raphael


Thinking for Ourselves:
Literacy Learning in a Diverse Teacher Inquiry Network

By: Taffy E. Raphael, Susan Florio-Ruane, Marcella Kehus, MariAnne George, Nina Hasty, Kathy Highfield,


Reading Lives: Creating and Sustaining Learning about Culture and Literacy
Education in Teacher Study Groups

By: Susan Florio-Ruane, Michigan State University
Taffy E. Raphael, Oakland University


What Counts as Teacher Research?
An essay from the Book Club Plus Group

 

To support our novel guides and online discussions, we've assembled a list of Internet resources to help you teach the units. Resources include web sites dealing with relevant topics as well as sites that publish theme-related literature (e.g., short stories and poems).