Publisher's Synopsis
Writer's notebooks allow students of all ages to brainstorm ideas, test strategies for crafting writing, and develop tools for drafting and revision. In this two-part series, Aimee Buckner—a fourth-grade teacher and author of Notebook Know-How (Stenhouse, 2005)—takes viewers into her classroom as students use their writer's notebooks across the curriculum to hone skills and play with language. The series features numerous mini-lessons that help students develop strategies for using their notebooks, including:Lifting a Line to mine previous entries;Highlighting and Word Hunting: to document thinking;List and Star to create writing topics;Daily Pages to promote fluency;Questioning the World to respond to reading;Anchor Charts to foster a sense of audience; Point of View to cultivate voice;Reread and Reflect to encourage self-assessment.The program also features a comprehensive look at using the notebooks in persuasive writing genre study, demonstrating how notebooks can be at the center of reading, writing, thinking, and talking about multiple perspectives.
