I was thinking of having one for Reader's Strategies/Writer's Workshop notes. If they open the book at the separation in the middle, they can have reading on one side and if they flip it over, writing from the back. I want one to be a Writer's Journal, one for Reading Responses and one for Word Work. I can feasibly keep two in the classroom for them, so they only are responsible for two.
As for grading I have begun to take up half a class every day. I have five classes. I have enough time during my prep to respond to them, if behave and not get too social (lol). I get through the notebooks in about two weeks and then start over again. The one that will be the biggest to me is the response ones anyway. I will change my mind about 80 times before school starts, but this is the best plan I have now. Kim On 3/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > -- Kimberlee Hannan Department Chair Sequoia Middle School Fresno, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
