rereading did not work but reading circle success

I did the rereading of the book for new vocabulary (from Primary Snapshots videos) and fell flat on the second reading. The kids were bored with the story so I improvised right away by having them call the word out loud when they heard me read it. That got their attention. These were kindergarten kids. All of those videos that show kids sitting quiet and listening may work at that school for that teacher but not for me or my kids. One reason - I reflected on - is that the kids expect me to read in a noisy way. They are use to my animated book readings and their ability to interact. So if I continue to read for new vocabulary I will have to keep with the program and have them involved.
I loved the literature circle video but knowing there were so many gaps in how to get to what the teacher did for the video I showed my students the teacher centered/guided clip first so they knew my expectations. It seems to have worked! Sitting in with the groups and listening to them discuss the graphic novels they are reading (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or The Storm in the Barn or Amulet 1: The Stonekeeper). The language and the depth of thinking about the novel sis not there but they are listening to each other and discussing the book. They have ideas and thoughts about what is happening in their novel and they are discussing it. I need to pose an example of thinking deeper, questioning, visualizing and connecting so they can get deeper into the book. These students have no Adrienne Gear learning so I will start to incorporate this into the lessons before their discussion. Visualizing will be the first and only for this novel. My reasoning is because the "gutters" between the frames lends to visualizing. I think this is like reading between the lines in a text written novel. I do not want to overwhelm them so one Gear per novel, with the encouragement to continue to use the Gear's learnt, is enough metacognition.