In a message dated 2/20/07 4:33:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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. > Pam writes: I agree - I posted earlier that I use 4 composition books, but NOT at once. I use one per 9 weeks. I'd go stark raving mad if I had to try to keep the kids organized with 4 different notebooks!!! Pam Tempest Team Neon-6th Gr. ELA Hudson Middle School http://nlcommunities.com/communities/tempest "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." John Lubbock ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ 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
