Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1571107827 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Buckner Does It Again! Another great resource for teachers! Filled with student examples and titles of great literature this will be a well-worn book before the year is up. This book does for readers' notebooks what her previous book did for writers. It includes easy-to-use ideas that take the readers' notebook to a new level. Her first lesson,'What I know to be true about reading', pro. Easy reading resource Teacher Mom The great thing about this book is that it's very easy to read through, not dry and methodical like so many others. Ironic, isn't it, that we're trying to teach the kids to personalize their writing, yet we're learning from very unpersonalized sources? No longer.As a teacher who uses the reading and writing workshop in a middle school ESL classroom, I have found t. Not Quite As Strong As Notebook Know-How C. Jones Imagine a great teacher of writing sat down to write a book about reading, and you have this book. Although not as strong as Notebook Know-How, I enjoyed the refreshingly different take on the Reader's Notebook. Aimee comes at the Reader's Notebook as, first, a writer. That makes the prompts she gives in the book very deep and powerful. Her ideas caused me to thin
In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner demonstrated the power of notebooks to spark and capture students ideas in the writing workshop. In the process, the notebook becomes a bridge that helps students make connections between ideas, texts, strategies, and their work as readers and writers. Teacher-guided lessons in every chapter help students create anchor texts for their notebooks using various comprehension and writing strategies. Buckner s fourth-grade students use reader s notebooks as a place to document their thinking and growth, to support their thinking for group discussions, and to explore their own ideas about a text without every entry being judged as evidence of their reading progress. As students become more proficient, they grow more independent in their thinking and responses and will begin to select the strategies that work best for them. Not
But Aimee has pushed me to use notebooks in more thoughtful ways. My students keep reading notebooks; they've become extremely valuable places to record our thinking, reflections, and book lists. I'm ready to try out some of these notebook strategies in my classroom. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens! --Room 241 blog