Elisa,
As I read different ideas from the list serve and in the book, On Solid Ground,
I learned that the students have their own notebooks. They have the
responsibility of using them during reader's workshop. I did this a little last
year. Each child had a Reading Response Notebook and they had to respond to one
title per week. They kept this notebook in their book box, and brought it to
reading conference. I feel like I "got my feet wet" last year with regards to
Reader's Workshop and now I'm ready to have a more involved program. So, the
notebooks this year will be like I read in OSG. They will respond to text in
the notebook, keep track of genres they read, keep track of words they need to
learn to spell and I will use the book to write comments for further practice
with reading strategies, running records and I'll use all this information WITH
them as they practice the strategies in Independent Reading Time. Now, if they
are the one's who must get their book out before
reading workshop, bring it to me, use it during workshop and then return it to
the basket in the library, I think there will be more of a chance that it won't
fall by the wayside when things get busy, because you know how second graders
can be about routine.....you couldn't change anything without a room full of
comments...they'd keep you on track.
I use kids often to keep me on track. whenever I have an important paper to
hand out the next day, I just put it on one of the student's desks. Don't you
know that when that student comes in the next morning the first thing he does
is bring the papers to me and ask me what he should do with them. Of course, I
tell him to hand them out!! Problem solved!
I guess I'm going to try to use this great energy more often, to my benefit
this year.
Debbie
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