Publisher's Synopsis
Writer's notebooks can be powerful assets for any writing teacher. They provide a high-comfort, "hot-house" environment where students' writing can flourish. Lessons for the Writer's Notebook by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi provides a series of proven lessons that will help you introduce the writer's notebook into your classroom, sustain it in your curriculum, and eventually guide students to transition from the privacy of the notebook to public, finished pieces of writing. Whether used as a stand-alone resource in your literacy block, or as an alternative launch cycle in your Teaching the Qualities of Writing (TQW) curriculum, Lessons for the Writer's Notebook will inspire your students to pick up a pen and imagine the writing possibilities.
Lessons for the Writer's Notebook includes:
- Lesson Cards - 20 ready-to-use lessons
- exemplar text
- graphic organizers
- Author Chats CD - quick audio clips from Ralph explain how he uses his writer's notebook
- Teacher's Guide Notebook's - philosophy - planning charts - teaching tips
