Authors: Aimee Buckner, Ralph Fletcher
ISBN-13: 9781571104137, ISBN-10: 1571104135
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
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:
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.
Foreword | ||
Ch. 1 | Why notebooks? | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Launching the notebook | 9 |
Ch. 3 | Kneading notebooks : expanding topics and building collections of ideas | 35 |
Ch. 4 | When writers read | 55 |
Ch. 5 | Using notebooks to understand genre | 75 |
Ch. 6 | Writing wrongs : editing, spelling, and punctuation | 95 |
Ch. 7 | Assessing the notebook | 111 |
App | Considerations for notebooks | 127 |
App | Charting author style | 128 |
App | Midyear self-evaluation | 129 |
App | End-of-year self-assessment | 131 |