Literature Circle

In my opinion, literature circles is a great help for any student to reach deeper understanding of what they read; However, with ESL students literature circles become more beneficial and helpful. Although ESL students might understand each word in a text, a lot of them did not get the whole or general meaning. Thus, literature circles help them to comprehend the whole meaning from each other.

One way to use technology in enhancing literature circle is to create their favorite characters in the way they actually look in the story. This exercise will help the student to understand the descriptive adjectives. Another way is to create some cartoon or animation for some parts of the story. These strategies will help in combining pictures with text. In addition, for a book that contains some descriptions, the students can create concept map in the class to understand the details. For example, they can create a concept map for the characters.

Moreover, I think blogs are great tool to discuss any topic. For instance, the coordinator can post the questions and the other students can answer the questions and comments on each other or correct each other. The Media hunter can also easily post the pictures s/he found. Additionally, the students can look for the meaning of new vocabulary easily via the online dictionaries, and the vocabulary elaborator can post the links of the reliable dictionaries they can look at.