The Book Club Game is for Friends

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Friends, Community Events, Libraries, & Book Stores

Friends and Community

In this age of high tech communication, cell phones, email, and instant message often replace the great feeling of an eye-to-eye hearty conversation. The Book Club Game is a tool that brings a Grand Conversation back through the sharing of literature. Friends, neighbors, and community members discover the depth of novels, uncover special messages of stories, and reveal their own ideas, experiences, and reactions as they move through the story and their own lives in this game. Comprehension, communication, and a genuine love for reading are all results of friends coming together to play The Book Club Game.

Libraries

Libraries are a natural place for community book clubs. Parent and child patrons sign up to read the “book of the month” before The Book Club Event.

The Book Club Game Book Lists are made available near a flyer announcing the details of the Book Club Game Meeting. The lists provide a great resource for parents and children to use in checking out great books and are an integral part of the game. On the event day games are available for groups of four to play while they savor the book read, build comprehension, develop communication skills and become aware of many more books they may like to discover. They can highlight those titles on their own book lists. Participants are given The Book Club Game Question Bookmarks with a sampling of the game's generic questions to guide future reading in a meaningful way. High school students earning community service points as well as senior volunteers may come and learn the game and run the program for future dates.

Our Book Club: Families, Friends and Classmates

Neighborhood Book Clubs

Neighborhood book clubs offer a great way to meet and get to know neighbors while promoting reading. Neighbors get in groups of four to decide on books to read. These groups can be a mixture of children and adults or one or the other. A date is set to finish the book by and a meeting place is determined. Alternating homes where the host sets up the discussion table with prompts and food from the story is one fun way to meet to play the game. (ideas for enhancing the meetings are included in The Book Club Game Extension Activity Booklet)

Book and Educational Stores

Book and Educational Stores provide a great venue for holding Book Clubs. Copies of the books to be read for the event are made available on a stand in advance with an announcement of the event. The games can also be made available for purchase. On the event day participants (adults and children) come and play the game, discussing the book, as they learn about other perspectives, more books to read, how to build their comprehension, and the true joy of reading. Book lists from The Book Club Game book list Pads and Question Bookmarks can be given out. The books on the book lists can be made available on a given shelf so that players can visit them after they have marked their lists to buy the books that interested them when mentioned in the game. The questions will guide parents and students into the deep thinking connectors that make reading so meaningful.

Community Centers, Recreational Centers, Synagogues, & Churches

The Book Club Game is a great catalyst in uniting community members through reading.

The Book Club Game as a focus tool for their meetings.

As the game guides discussion and the savoring of the story it also facilitates the savoring of each person’s week as it relates to the story. The relevance of reading becomes appreciated as each participant uncovers the personal connections, messages, and purposes of each story read. The communication that takes place facilitates respect for differences, appreciation for similarities, enlightening self-discovery as well as the exciting journey of learning about others.