10 Tips for Book Clubs in Classrooms

Link: http://cpet.tc.columbia.edu/one-book-book-club/book-club-in-the-classroom-10-tips-for-success

Since we are starting our book clubs soon, I decided to do a resource blog in ways to make it a success! This page gives 10 great tips to successfully implement book clubs in classrooms. These are definitely for teachers and I think it explains things that we should keep in mind if we want to do a book club in our future classrooms. I hope everyone checks it out!

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