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Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook
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A writer's notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers' workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time.
In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. She also addresses many of the questions teachers ask when they start using notebooks with their students, including:
- How do I launch the notebook?
- What mini-lessons can be used throughout the year to help students become more skilled in keeping notebooks?
- How do I help students who are stuck in writing ruts with notebooks?
- How do I help students use their learning from notebooks for other writing?
- How do I organize notebooks so that the design is flexible, yet still allows students to access information easily?
- How can writers' notebooks help students become better readers?
- How do I assess notebooks?
This compact guide is packed with lessons, tips, and samples of student writing to help teachers make the most of writers' notebooks, without sacrificing time needed for the rest of the literacy curriculum. In fact, Notebook Know-How shows how smart and focused use of writers' notebooks enhances and deepens literacy learning in both reading and writing for students in grades 3–8.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #10264 in Books
- Published on: 2005-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 152 pages
Customer Reviews
Notebook Know-How is a Gem
Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook is a useful resource for teachers new to notebooks or seasoned veterans. The author, Aimee Buckner, really takes the reader on a journey of the writer's notebook with easy-to-use strategies that are as sound as can be. Always bringing us back to trusting the writing will come and it won't always be good. Really it won't. The part on assessment is inspiring. I really found myself thinking about my own teaching, how I use notebooks, and how I might do it all better. Her writing is magic in how it creates a map of flexibility and specificity without ever preaching. Ralph Fletcher got it right: "That's the best kind of teacher renewal I can imagine." I concur.
If you have writing workshop in your classroom---read this book!!!
This is a wonderful resource that doesn't read like a reference book. The ideas for keeping the notebook going are easy to implement and helps to show you how to use the notebook as a tool in the writing process. It is obvious that Ralph Fletcher is a mentor to Aimee because her book is a wealth of information which is written in the laid back way of Ralph. I enjoyed reading this book and have recommended to many other teachers.
An ideal resource for teachers in grades 3 through 8
Notebook Know-How: Strategies For The Writer's Notebook by elementary school classroom teacher Aimee Buckner is an encouraging guide for writers wanting to introduce a variable construct to their personal writing notebooks. Notebook Know-How covers such issues as how to launch the notebook, what mini-lessons can be used throughout the year to help students become more skilled in keeping notebooks?, how to help students having difficulties in transferring their notebook writing to other forms of written expression, how to organize notebooks for flexibility and easy access to information, how to utilize writer notebooks to help students become better readers, and how to properly assess notebooks. Enhanced with lessons, tips, student writing samples, Notebook Know-How is an ideal resource for teachers in grades 3 through 8.
