Reading notebooks

One of the things I do every year that really makes a difference in my students' learning is having them use notebooks to store notes, examples, work, and

Help your students keep all of their reader's workshop materials organized in one place. Learn how to set up the perfect reader's notebook with this video tutorial to get you started! Perfect for third grade, fourth grade, or fifth grade! #readersworkshop #upperelementary #thirdgrade #fourthgrade #fifthgrade

Check out this blog post and VIDEO tutorial all about creating a student reader’s notebook in your classroom. You’ll learn what a reader’s notebook is, how to create and set-up one, tips to effectively use them, the benefit to students and teachers, and MORE! Get an overview of the four main sections or tabs with examples, ideas, and ways to effectively use it during reader’s workshop. Make sure to get the FREE teacher’s guide to creating a reading notebook today!

For the past couple of days, I have been working on setting up example, interactive notebooks for language arts and reading. For the first week of school, my students will be setting their notebooks up and creating some pages that tap into background knowledge and (hopefully) help them take ownership of and pride in their notebooks. I figured I would share how we are starting the reading notebook. The students will have to create a cover for it that titles it as their interactive reading…

Reader's notebooks are a powerful learning tool in the elementary classroom! Click to learn how to effectively introduce reader's notebooks to your primary students with these mini-lesson ideas and printables. #inspiremeasap #readersnotebooks #reading #readingworkshop #readersworskshop #elementary

These FREE Reading Response Notebooks have been a GAME CHANGER in my classroom. In this post, I spell out how we created these individualized journal covers, how we used these reading response journals to get to know each other as readers, as well as how to get students invested and engaged in writing about reading! These journals are the PERFECT idea for any literacy curriculum, and best of all? They're FREE! Click to grab your free template now! For 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade.

Learn all about how you can use Interactive Student Notebooks to facilitate close reading!

Hey hey there! I know that many of you are enjoying long and lazy summer days. I also know that many of you are still trucking away in your classrooms and my thoughts are with you! I wanted to give you some extra insight into Rooted in Reading and especially give you an idea of how I set up my interactive notebooks with my students. If you have NO idea what I am talking about when I say "Rooted in Reading" read THIS POST here to see all about the 2nd grade version. You can also look at the…

Learn how to set up Reading Notebooks for Upper Elementary grades. Check out the post for FREE printables to create effective reading notebooks for your students.

Create an engaging and rigorous class novel unit with Interactive Notebooks. Here are some tips for designing for middle and high school students.

This year, I revised the materials in my reader's notebooks. I'm using a combo of a binder and a notebook for reading workshop this year, and I'm not 100% happy with it. I thought I would share some of what I've been doing. Maybe you can help me tweak. Let me first tell you how I've been working it. In their binder, they have a section for anchor charts and handouts. There's an index where they write the title of the paper so they can see at a glance what they have. It' sort of like a mini…

One of the biggest struggles in Literacy classrooms can sometimes be incorporating informational texts into literary units. Another struggle, getting students to read on level. Another struggle, getti

Every year I love to share our Back To School photos with you. Oh how these three have my heart! It's always a bittersweet time of year when you're sad to say goodbye to Summer yet ready for a little more order to your days. It's hard for me to accept that my girl is going to be an 8th grader. I feel like she was just heading into Kindergarten, and I blinked and now she's an 8th grader! Time is cruel I tell ya! While my girl heads to 8th grade, my little Mister will be a big 3rd

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I wrote recently that I think it’s important that we give students a daily writing time . But, obviously a logistical issue comes up when you have your students writing every single day of the school year (or at least pretty close to it). How do we organize all of this writing? How do we keep up w

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