Notebook Connections

<p>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.</p><p>Inside Notebook Connections you'll find:</p><ul> <li>Ways to launch develop and fine-tune a reader's notebook program</li> <li>Teacher-guided lessons for each chapter</li> <li>Assessment tips to review student growth and comprehension levels</li> <li>How to select the strategies that work for them and incorporate into the workshop</li> </ul><p>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.</p>