Book Club Book Clubs. Some could argue they’re the backbone to reading instruction in Elementary schools. It’s a teaching instruction that many of us are familiar with and have witnessed being implemented into the classrooms. Students are in groups scattered across the room, and each group is reading and discussing a different book. Perhaps within each group the students have been previously assigned roles or maybe given a list of questions to answer. The groups might later than have a community meaning where they share aspects of their reading and compare and contrast within the books. All of this sounds great and "we know that r esponding to literature through discussion, preferably in small groups, is a time-honored way to promote literary growth through reading, reflecting, and reevaluating one’s response in light of the responses of others," (Sloan, 2002, p. 28) but after reading this Weeks readings I feel as if the Book Club being described ...