Using the writer's notebook in grades 3-8
Subtitle: a teacher's guide
By: Janet L. Elliott.
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780814135006
Subjects: English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Language arts (Elementary); Creative writing (Elementary education); Notebooks
Description: xii, 131 p. : 26 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Why use a writer's notebook?; title: Getting started; title: Planting seeds; title: Observing our world; title: Using children?s literature; title: Developing a notebook entry; title: Using the writer's notebook as a workbench; title: Creating a unit of study for the writer's notebook; title: Gathering language; title: Integrating poetry; title: Engaging boys in notebook writing; title: Using the notebook across the curriculum; title: Refining the use of the writer's notebook; title: Appendix: ncte beliefs about the teaching of writing; title: Works cited; title: Author.