num_pages: 160
description: In Notebook Strategies for the Readers 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.Buckners fourth grade students use readers 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. Inside Notebook Connections  youll Notebook Connections provides a comprehensive model for making readers notebooks the centerpiece of your reading workshop. Readers notebooks become a bridge that helps students make connections between ideas texts strategies and their work as readers and writers. 
language: English
title: Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook
publisher: Stenhouse Publishers