Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook

This is not one of those books that will collect dust on a shelf. It will be read and reread many times! It is a great resource for any teacher of writing! Thank you Aimee Buckler! This book contains a wealth of organized and practical strategies that will add to any writing program. Buckler gives teachers easy to model tools to pass on to their students. She gives many examples from literature that can be used as springboards for specific areas. I will never look at notebooks the same! What an inspirational addition to my teaching library!

This is a fantastic book that provides practical ideas to implement in any Writing classroom. The author refers often to an elementary classroom but I have been able to use many of the ideas with my 8th graders. If you are just starting writing workshop and need a reliable source for organization this is a great resource!

Notebook Know-How: Strategies For The Writer's Notebook by elementary school classroom teacher Aimee Buckner is an encouraging guide for writers wanting to introduce a variable construct to their personal writing notebooks. Notebook Know-How covers such issues as how to launch the notebook, what mini-lessons can be used throughout the year to help students become more skilled in keeping notebooks?, how to help students having difficulties in transferring their notebook writing to other forms of written expression, how to organize notebooks for flexibility and easy access to information, how to utilize writer notebooks to help students become better readers, and how to properly assess notebooks. Enhanced with lessons, tips, student writing samples, Notebook Know-How is an ideal resource for teachers in grades 3 through 8.

This is a wonderful resource that doesn't read like a reference book. The ideas for keeping the notebook going are easy to implement and helps to show you how to use the notebook as a tool in the writing process. It is obvious that Ralph Fletcher is a mentor to Aimee because her book is a wealth of information which is written in the laid back way of Ralph. I enjoyed reading this book and have recommended to many other teachers.

Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook is a useful resource for teachers new to notebooks or seasoned veterans. The author, Aimee Buckner, really takes the reader on a journey of the writer's notebook with easy-to-use strategies that are as sound as can be. Always bringing us back to trusting the writing will come and it won't always be good. Really it won't. The part on assessment is inspiring. I really found myself thinking about my own teaching, how I use notebooks, and how I might do it all better. Her writing is magic in how it creates a map of flexibility and specificity without ever preaching. Ralph Fletcher got it right: "That's the best kind of teacher renewal I can imagine." I concur.