Your Writer’s Notebook
A composition book is IDEAL for a writer's notebook. Let's talk about why this is the case...
I am so pleased to be discussing journals, writer’s notebooks and blogging in our class. We will be reading Janet Elliott’s Using the Writer’s Notebook in Grades 3-8. Another of my favorite books devoted specifically to the Writer’s Notebook is Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer’s Notebook. Aimee Buckner is a 4th grade teacher who offers her own pragmatic advice for launching notebooks in the classroom. Check out a sneak peek into Ch. 1 Why Notebooks.
Some interesting ideas for you to ponder?
- What is the purpose of a Writer’s Notebook?
- What might be your goals as a teacher of writing?
- Launching the Notebook?
- Organization of the Notebook?
For your first notebook entry, I invite you to write about anything! Feel free to post your “notebook entry” to your blog. For inspiration, you may try taking photographs and writing about what you see.
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