Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook,   ISBN:9781571107824

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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 this book to be very valuable. Our K-12 Language Arts coordinator recommended this book to me. It's full of ideas and the structure needed to reach reading and writing goals. It's very user friendly and helps teachers to set up (and actually use) a format that works.

This is an excellent resource for both beginning and advanced teachers.

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I found this book very helpful. I have started using some of the ideas in my classroom and think it's a great way to get the kids to think through their ideas.

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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', provides a wonderful avenue to learn about the students thoughts on reading in each student's individual style. She also stressed giving students time to talk about books as well-which is supported by research. She stressed starting out with guided practice using the read-aloud to model the strategy being taught. Immersing the students in quality literature will hopefully produce life-long learners--we know worksheets can't!