Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook
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ISBN: 1571107827 / Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers, April 2009
Buckner, an elementary school teacher and specialist in reading and writing instruction, describes how to use reader's notebooks as a place for students in grades three through eight to document and support thinking for group discussions and explore ideas about a text. She details how to start and develop a reader's notebook program and includes lessons and strategies for helping students generate and elaborate on responses to texts. She also discusses the connection between reading and writing, and assessment. No index is provided. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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In Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader’s Notebook, author Aimee Buckner focuses on the reading workshop and how teachers can transform students from “couch potato” readers who read and answer basic questions about a text to readers who critically think beyond their reading.Buckner’s fourth grade students use reader’s notebooks as a place to document their thinking about a text and explore ideas without every entry being judged or graded as evidence of their reading progress. Buckner describes her model as flexible enough for students to respond in a variety of ways yet structured enough to provide explicit instruction. Inside Notebook Connections, you’ll find: Ways to launch, develop, and fine-tune a reader’s notebook programTeacher-guided lessons for each chapterAssessment tips to review student growth and comprehension levelsHow to select the strategies that work for them and incorporate into the workshop Notebook Connections provides a comprehensive model for making reader’s notebooks the centerpiece of your reading workshop. Reader’s notebooks become a bridge that helps students make connections between ideas, texts, strategies, and their work as readers and writers.
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