So, is this like a Writer's Notebook, but more personal? It sounds very similar to what I do with my writer's notebook/interactive notebook.
On 7/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > -- - Heather "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." --Clarence Day "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little good evidence exists that there's any educational substance behind the accountability and testing movement." —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding. " —Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate _______________________________________________ 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
