ABSTRACT
Strategies are different from prompts in that they can be used more than once in different situations. One of the most alluring aspects of literature circles as described by Harvey Daniels (2002) are the “jobs”–approaches or lenses through which students can respond to the reading. Some students make a list. Some make an annotated list, commenting on each item. The whole act of enjoying the story is indeed a form of thinking. Nonetheless, children are smart and ruthless with answers that seem complete but lack significance. Teachers and students use the sticky notes in a variety of ways. The notebook and the writing within is the thread—connecting the conversations to individual students to parent awareness—that begins to pull the many components of reading in the upper grades together.
