Writing+Notebooks

"Daybooks " are interactive notebooks, journals, or whatever you want to call them. My colleagues and I named them daybooks because Donald Murray, author and National Writing Project mentor, named his notebook a daybook. He said that everything he wrote during the day went into his "daybook". We wanted a word that held no meaning or preconceived notions for our students - especially boys.

Resources I have authored to help you

 * 1) [|LikeToWrite.com] Visit my website for videos, examples, and further explanations.
 * 2) [|LikeToRead.com] Learn to use daybooks for reader response; free lessons and downloads
 * 3) [|My Pinterest Page] Look for the board on Notebooks for all subject areas.
 * 4) [|LikeToWrite on Facebook] Daily ideas and inspiration about writing to put to use right away.Fac
 * 5) [|Thinking Out Loud on Paper: The Student Daybook as a Tool To Foster Learning] Maintaining a daybook is a responsibility that rests on the shoulders of students: a place to write, think, reflect, set goals and assess work in any subject matter and at any grade level K-college. Students use daybooks  effectively if shown how as we explain in our book. We detail personal journeys introducing and sustaining <span class="gm_ gm_5ac2295e-8825-9e53-e8e5-e1ab177c8578 gm-spell">daybooks in our classrooms. We are indebted to Donald Murray who coined the term "daybook," a notebook teachers and students write in all day.

__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Sites __

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Sharing Our Notebooks]<span class="gmw_"> Photos of <span class="gm_ gm_967a5830-633c-aa03-6472-257777bc4fac gm-spell">daybooks
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|K & Co. Smash]<span class="gmw_"> Photos of journals (<span class="gm_ gm_47555442-9555-8247-e7ec-4275e2d3765c gm-spell">daybooks ).
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Are Second Graders Ready for Writer's Notebooks?] Aimee Buckner * Choice Literacy Article
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"><span class="gmw_">[|Penzu Journals] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Write online.  This journal is different in that you can email to someone, it saves automatically, you can print your pages!!!! Partners can make comments to one another. You could have lots of people comment on the same time.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**__Writing Notebooks for Teachers__**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Breathing In, Breathing Out: Keeping a Writer’s Notebook]<span class="gmw_">, Heinemann, 1996, Ralph Fletcher talks you through all your writing fears and encourages you to keep <span class="gmw_">notebook - a place where you can "just write badly". Following his advice, you will begin to write and your enthusiasm will be catchy to your kids.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Notebook Know How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook], Stenhouse, 2005, Aimee Buckner. Buckner's suggests strategies for launching writer's notebooks. Her focus is on intermediate children and writer's workshop.Notebook Know How is a useful resource to share with new-to-the-concept teachers. It's short and filled with thoughtful writing-lesson suggestions.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**__Content Notebooks__**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Setting up reading notebooks] Two Writing Teachers, Sept 2014 Added 9.24.14
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Steps to writing in math journals] - Edutopia. 9-minutes video. Remarkable! Added 12/1/13.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Reflective Journals] Definition of a reflective journal with tips for keeping one.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"><span class="gmw_">[|Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader’s Notebook], Stenhouse, 2009, Aimee Buckner.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Teaching Science With Interactive Notebooks], Corwin Press, 2010, Kelli Marcarelli.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Kindergarten science notebooks] Start 'em early! Added 9/5/13.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Science Notebooks: Writing About Inquiry], Heinemann, 2003, Brian Campbell and Lori Fulton.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|TCI Interactive Social Studies Notebooks]:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Comprehending Math: Adapting Reading Strategies to Teaching Math K-6], Heinemann, 2006, Arthur Hyde.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">NEW [|Motivating Reluctant Writers With Journals] - plus VIDEO support
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Social Studies Interactive Notebooks] Examples and explanation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"><span class="gmw_">[|Art Journaling] - So beautiful! Added 5/21/13.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Power of Notebooks in PreK] Added 6/17/13. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Choice Membership required.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Science Notebooks] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Added 11/24/13

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**__Paperbacks by Ralph Fletcher for Students Learning to Use Writing Notebooks__**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Writer’s Notebooks: Unlocking the Writer Within You], HarperCollins, 1996.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works For You], HarperCollins, 2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem From the Inside Ou]t, HarperCollins, 2002.

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