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Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook
A writer's notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers' workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time.
In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of thei...more
In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of thei...more
Paperback, 152 pages
Published
January 1st 2005
by Stenhouse Publishers
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I love the way Amiee writes and organizes her books. She gets right to the strategies and how they work without sounding pedantic or like a dry textbook. At the same time, she includes enough academic context to explain what makes her strategies work. If I taught the younger grades, I would certainly rate this higher, but I did find that a fair amount of the strategies were suited more for the 3-6 classroom.
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I absolutely loved this book! I feel like it is a great supplement to Lucy Calkins and Leograndis' "Launching the Writer's Workshop." I don't think it would be a very good resource without a working knowledge of the writer's workshop, but it doesn't pretend to set up the writer's workshop, it gives you help on what your writer's notebooks could like like in your classroom.
To start, I adored the easy way that Aimee Buckner wrote. I stayed up until past 11:30 reading this because it was so easy to...more
To start, I adored the easy way that Aimee Buckner wrote. I stayed up until past 11:30 reading this because it was so easy to...more
This book explained all the ins and outs any teacher of a writer’s workshop would want to know. I chose this book because I was intrigued by the concept of a writer’s notebook, but I wanted to learn more practical and realistic ways it could be utilized in the classroom to truly engage students. How can I avoid the writer’s notebook turning into a mundane requirement that students only fulfill to please the teacher?
This book was geared toward intermediate and elementary students due to the fact...more
This book was geared toward intermediate and elementary students due to the fact...more
This was a great professional book. In my language arts methods class we kept a writer's notebook over the course of the semester and I don't think it was explained very well so a lot of what people, including me, wrote in it was a big pile of crap and it had no purpose. This book talked about why a writer's notebook is necessary and why it works. It gives a lot of great and practical information about how to launch a writer's notebook - which I think is the hardest part to do for teachers and s...more
At first I thought, "Why did I order this???" I couldn't remember. And then I thought, "Do I really need to read another book about writers' notebooks?" But the book is very practical, and even if your students don't keep writers' notebooks in the same way this author has her students, there is still solid work with writing suggested and good strategies for what I consider some neglected aspects of the writing process. For instance, students get a topic and then (most of the time) teachers just...more
This practical and accessible book was such a great find for a 1st year ELA teacher such as myself.
Although the author is primarily a 4th grade teacher, (who has taught 6th grade, as well), I found the majority of the ideas in the book to be readily adaptable for my 8th grade students.
Keep in mind that this book is meant to be practical; the theory behind the practice is generally skimmed, but of course a complete bibliography is included in the end.
I appreciate how practice-focused the scope of...more
Although the author is primarily a 4th grade teacher, (who has taught 6th grade, as well), I found the majority of the ideas in the book to be readily adaptable for my 8th grade students.
Keep in mind that this book is meant to be practical; the theory behind the practice is generally skimmed, but of course a complete bibliography is included in the end.
I appreciate how practice-focused the scope of...more
This is a great resource for using writer's notebooks with students. The author is a writing teacher that gave a lot of strategies to use with students. It was organized really well with lots of charts that I will be able to refer to during the school year. Great resource for language arts teachers.
Worth reading...fantastic launching & revision strategies! I also like her idea of starting in the front for daily writing & then going from the back to the front for strategies, etc. The only thing I want hear more about it is the possibility of combining the readers' and writers' notebooks. She only touched on a few strategy mini-lessons with reading & writing that overlap. However, I still need some more guidance on this. I need to keep it simple for my 5th graders, especially whe...more
If you are a teacher and are considering using notebooks/journals in your class, at any grade level, you should read this book. It's packed with strategies that can be used over and over (as opposed to writing prompts that can only be used once), and Buckner shows smart ways to work writing mini-lessons, revision and grammar into notebook activities. I wish my own teachers had gotten more bang for our buck with our journals; after all the writing, we never went back and reread, revised, or expan...more
I found this book packed with exceptionally helpful ideas for using a notebook in Writers' Workshop. While other books gave me ideas about the structure of the overall workshop, this one helped me understand the power of the notebook for helping my students learn drafting and revision strategies. Definitely a book that I've returned to multiple times throughout the year.
This was one book that my district gave ELA teachers that did NOT have to do with evaluation systems, and it was great. After a wonderful "Methods of Teaching Writing" course in college, I tried to implement writer's notebooks this year, and Buckner's book gave me really wonderful, practical ways in which I can tweak my organization as well as essential lessons for next year.
If I could give more stars, I would. Aimee Buckner, a fourth grade teacher who also has taught sixth grade, knows her stuff. This seven chapter skinny book is simply dripping with easy to implement and practical writing tools for the middle grade writer's tool kit. I remembered some of her mini-lessons last year, but I'm literally kicking myself for not cracking her book out throughout the year to use all of them.
Clear, concise, and teacher-friendly, Buckner's book is a must-have. Do you want y...more
Clear, concise, and teacher-friendly, Buckner's book is a must-have. Do you want y...more
I am so glad I read Katie Wood Ray's Wondrous Words first--definitely a good lens through which to read this nuts & bolts kind of book. Buckner does use Ray as a reference (and Calkins & Atwell) so she's got cred in my book. I will use several of her ideas around logistics, focus lessons & assessment for sure!
Aimee Buckner's book is a great resource for teachers who want to utilize a writer's notebook in their classroom. There are multiple, thorough examples of strategies for both the teacher and student that aid in brainstorming, beginnings and endings, writer's block, and more.
I found this book very helpful when thinking about setting up writing lessons and writing notebooks for my class. It was filled with practical ideas and suggestions that teachers could use in a variety of settings. I'm excited to use what I learned in my classroom this year!
This book was in my mailbox in the teacher workroom. Helpful for setting up and thinking through using a Writer's Notebook in the classroom. Although it was written from a 4th grade teacher's point of view, much of the information is transferable to upper grades.
This is a useful book and I know that I will pull ideas from it to use in my middle school classroom. This book focused on Writer's Notebooks and writing. I like how there are clearly presented strategy lessons and assessment techniques. I was hoping for a bit more on the reading/writing connection, but that is probably why Aimee Buckner wrote Notebook Connections, which I loved.
This book helped me to define how I implement writer's notebooks with my fourth graders. Some of the most important procedures that I practice in my workshop come from this book!
Great guide for using writer's notebooks in the language arts classroom. Descriptions of how to introduce, organize, and assess the notebook. Many useful strategies!
This book is great for literacy and social studies it gives students strategies for writing.This book was a choice our book club made. It was great for a book club.
Aug 22, 2011
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2011- I felt like this was more geared to those teaching intermediate grades (3-5). I did pick up a few good ideas to try with my middle schoolers though.
Very helpful for re-thinking the teaching of writing (and reading). It is my plan to implement much of this into our homeschool in the fall.
Written in an easy to read style, this text gives a great introduction to the essence of Writer's Workshop in any classroom while providing some actual examples of lessons that the author has done with her own writers.
Gave me good insight and a list of things to consider as I improve my teaching.
Good strategies. Nice lay-out. Easy to use. Good book.
This book is ROCKING my homeschool world!
Super book for writers workshop.
some good stuff, a quick read
Excellent read!! The author really knows her stuff.
The appeal of this book is that she writes is so smoothly. It is a dream to read.
The appeal of this book is that she writes is so smoothly. It is a dream to read.
Aug 07, 2012
Elaine Burnell
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So far great ideas for launching and using Writer's Notebook in the classroom. Looking forward to using them this year.
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