View the Independent Writing Within, Beyond and About Texts Webinar Now there are three distinct Reader\'s Notebooks to help students grades K through 8 become better readers through writing.
Fountas, a professor in the School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been a classroom teacher, language arts specialist, and consultant in school districts acro.
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It is organized into easy-to-use, color-coded tabbed sections.
The Reader\'s Notebook also contains many different resources for writing about reading.
Students may write in longhand, make charts or quick sketches, or glue in their writings produced on the computer.
Used throughout the academic year, the Notebook serves as a continual record of one reader\'s book list, interests and reading responses.
It is also a way for teachers to systematically assess students\' responses to the texts they are reading independently.
The Notebook becomes a personal storehouse of students\' thoughts and feelings and a place to access them for later review, reflection, and sharing.
In it, students transform traditional book reports into active dialogues.
As described in the authors\' best-selling Guiding Readers and Writers, Grades 3-6, the Reader\'s Notebook is practical and easy to use.
Fountas & Pinnell Reader\'s Notebooks are 8x10 spiral notebooks, similar to what students use every day, but specially designed to promote reflection and dialogue about reading.
It is also an excellent assessment tool for documenting reading achievement over time in a reading workshop that includes independent reading, guided reading, and genre study.
New Reader\'s Notebook: Primary (recommended for Grades K-2) Reader\'s Notebook (recommended for Grades 2-4) Reader\'s Notebook: Advanced (recommended for Grades 4-8) Here\'s an engaging way to improve your students\' reading comprehension and to encourage them to write their thoughts about what they\'ve read.
View the Independent Writing Within, Beyond and About Texts Webinar Now there are three distinct Reader\'s Notebooks to help students grades K through 8 become better readers through writing