Readers Writing

Klappentext Offers practical lessons that show teachers how students of all ability levels can use readers' notebooks to think critically! on their own! one step at a time. Each of the lessons uses a fiction or non-fiction book to address a comprehension strategyquestioning! connecting! analyzing! synthesizing! evaluating! visualizing! or monitoringand shows students one specific way they can write about their thinking.

Résumé
When faced with a blank page in their readers' notebooks, students often fall back on what is familiar: summarizing. Despite our best efforts to model through comprehension strategies what good readers do, many students struggle to transfer this knowledge and make it their own when writing independently about books.