This book describes how to define, use, and develop the reader response notebook with elementary and middle school students and move toward agency, autonomy, and accountability, so that students can achieve a more creative level of reader response and lead more literate lives. It draws on the authors' and other teachers’ experiences to describe the path of reading response notebook work across an academic year. It outlines an expanded vision of the reading response notebook and how it differs from more standard uses; how to launch this work with students; explicit teaching of reader response notebook strategies; supporting students' independent use of strategies, promoting their reflective self-assessment, and establishing grading criteria that holds students accountable for their work; how the reader response notebook can bridge students' literate practices in and out of school; and how it helps form their identities as literate beings. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
