Thanks for all your comments about Living Books. Steve Clymie mentioned Bruce Morgan and Writing Through the Tween Years, Grades 3-6. That is indeed where the presenter at my workshop got the idea. She is now the principal of an elementary school (moved from an AP job at a middle school) and has brought Living Books to her elem. school. Her 17 year old daughter visited today and showed us her "Living Book." Quite interesting. Seems she didn't know that was what she was creating until her mother referred to it as such. She called it "Creative Disarray," I think, after a line in a book describing someone's windblown hair...She said she has been keeping one for several years and has several filled ones under her bed.
I asked if it were a variety of Interactive Notebooks, but since the presenter was unfamiliar with that concept, couldn't say. However, she is very open to new ideas and I'll be sending her some info on IANs in science and in language arts. I'm interested in having students in the AVID program keep a living book (I really don't like that nomer) as part of their AVID binder, with learning logs an integral part. -- "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worthwhile." --Herm Alvright, writer. _______________________________________________ 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
