Notebook Connections

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.

Aimee Buckner has taught children in grades 3-6 and is currently teaching fourth graders at Brookwood Elementary School in Georgia. As a specialist in both reading and writing instruction, she speaks at national and regional literacy conferences around the country, including NCTE and IRA. Notebook Know-How eloquently develops a process for the assessment of writer's notebooks that actively involves the students. Buckner describes a process of self-evaluation, which demands that students reread and re?ect thoughtfully on their own writing and their process of writing development. Writing self-re?ection is a highly valued skill, and its inclusion in Notebook Know-How makes this book a very strong guide for any educator interested in using writer's notebooks.

Chapter 1: Reading, Writing, and Harvesting Hope; Chapter 2: Invitations: Getting to Know Students as Readers; Chapter 3: From Comprehension Strategies to Notebooks; Chapter 4: Reading Like a Writer; Chapter 5: Beneath the Story: Discovering Hidden Layers; Chapter 6: Assessment: A Tool for Teaching in the Now