Kimberly, I also combine my Reader's/Writer's Notebooks into one interactive journal. I would suggest that you NOT go to 3 or 4 smaller notebooks, as then you have 3 or 4 more artifacts to grade. I can see your complaint about the 3-subject notebook being too big to lug around and grade; but I certainly wouldn't want to grade even 2 different notebooks with my 4 core Lang. Arts sections. That would multiply my grading headache to 8 sets of notebooks instead of 4. You would be compounding your headache into 12 or more sets of notebooks to slog through. I just use a 70-page notebook. That seemed to work fine until we needed to get new notebooks for the semester change and transfer essential papers from the old to the new notebook. I think there is no one perfect way; just a matter of how much headache do you want to suffer. DeAnn Kaduce Central Middle School Kansas City, MO
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/19/2007 10:32:01 AM >>> "I think next year I am going to have them get three or four hardback composition books. One for Reader's Workshop Notes and Responses, Writer's Conventions and Word Work, and Writing Notebook." -- Kimberlee Hannan Department Chair Sequoia Middle School Fresno, CA _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org . Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
