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Using the writer's notebook in grades 3-8 : a teacher's guide /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elliott, Janet L., 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, [2008]
Subjects:
English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching (Elementary)
Language arts (Elementary)
Creative writing (Elementary education)
Notebooks.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Why use a writer's notebook?
  • Getting started
  • Planting seeds
  • Observing our world
  • Using children?s literature
  • Developing a notebook entry
  • Using the writer's notebook as a workbench
  • Creating a unit of study for the writer's notebook
  • Gathering language
  • Integrating poetry
  • Engaging boys in notebook writing
  • Using the notebook across the curriculum
  • Refining the use of the writer's notebook
  • Appendix: ncte beliefs about the teaching of writing
  • Works cited
  • Author.