Now Online: Notebook Connections
April 2009
"In the reader's notebook I had found the place for students to document their thinking and growth, to support their thinking for group discussions, and to explore their own ideas about a text without each and every entry being a judgment of their reading progress."
In her new book, Notebook Connections, Aimee Buckner shows you how a reader's notebook can be used as a tool to generate and elaborate on responses to text, and provides strategies that students can rely on--from book to book, from genre to genre--to push their writing beyond retelling the story.
Like Aimee's previous book on writer's notebook, Notebook Know- How, Notebook Connections presents a model that's flexible enough for students to respond in a variety of ways, yet structured enough to provide explicit instruction. More than a dozen teacher- guided lessons help students create anchor texts within their notebooks. Then as children become more independent in their thinking and response, they begin to respond in their notebooks, choosing strategies that work best for them.
Aimee shows how the reader's notebook can serve as a bridge between reading and writing, and provides a holistic approach to assessment--with specific rubrics--that involves students and doesn't undermine the process. Classroom interactions throughout the book give concrete examples of how to successfully integrate notebooks into your reading workshop.
The entire text of Notebook Connections is now online for preview.
Read more about Aimee Buckner.
