Notebooks

**//Inside the Writer’s-Reader’s Notebook: A Workshop Essential//** Rief introduces her students to notebooks by saying, “Show me who you are as you think about yourself, about books and reading, about the world around you. What do you notice all around you?” (p.9)
 * Linda Rief**
 * 2007, Heinemann **
 * ( ** notes by Suzanne Standerford, May 2009)

She suggests using the notebook to: · gather ideas for writing · record, respond, and react to nightly reading or drawing · hold on to memories (whether they feel significant or relevant, insignificant or irrelevant at the moment) · record thoughts, observations, and questions about their immediate world or the world at large · question reading, writing, learning · take out frustrations, fear, anger, or sadness · remember everything that makes them happiest · work out who they are by thinking about all that matters or doesn’t matter to them · keep ideas in one place so they don’t lose their thinking · establish the habits of collecting, noticing, listening, and writing · practice writing (pp. 9-10).

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