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The Reader Response Notebook: Teaching toward Agency, Autonomy, and Accountability
Ted Kesler, with a community of grade school teachers and students, demonstrates how students' creative responses lead to deep comprehension of diverse texts and ultimately help them to develop their literate identities.
The reader response notebook (RRN) is a tried-and-true tool in elementary and middle school classrooms. However, teachers and students often express frustration with this tool. Responses can read as though students are just going through the motions, with little evidence of deep comprehension. With this book, teacher educator and consultant Ted Kesler breathes new life into the RRN by infusing this work with three key practices: Encouraging responses to reflect design work, using a variety of writing tools; expanding what counts as text, including popular culture texts that are important in students' lives outside of school; and making the RRN an integral part of a community of practice. Providing myriad examples of student work and explicit teaching in classrooms, Kesler, with a community of grade school teachers and students, demonstrates how students' creative responses lead to deep comprehension of diverse texts and ultimately help them to develop their literate identities. This book colorfully illustrates how to teach students toward agency, autonomy, and accountability in their reader response notebooks.
The reader response notebook (RRN) is a tried-and-true tool in elementary and middle school classrooms. However, teachers and students often express frustration with this tool. Responses can read as though students are just going through the motions, with little evidence of deep comprehension. With this book, teacher educator and consultant Ted Kesler breathes new life into the RRN by infusing this work with three key practices: Encouraging responses to reflect design work, using a variety of writing tools; expanding what counts as text, including popular culture texts that are important in students' lives outside of school; and making the RRN an integral part of a community of practice. Providing myriad examples of student work and explicit teaching in classrooms, Kesler, with a community of grade school teachers and students, demonstrates how students' creative responses lead to deep comprehension of diverse texts and ultimately help them to develop their literate identities. This book colorfully illustrates how to teach students toward agency, autonomy, and accountability in their reader response notebooks.
155 pages, Paperback
Published October 6, 2018
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March 24, 2022
Intended for educators, this book is changing my life. I now have concrete tools and approaches to enlarge and enrich my reading life, my encounters with stories in movies, classic films, music, the list goes on.
The many color photos and examples makes this a book that I will have by my side for the rest of my life. A lifetime best read.
The many color photos and examples makes this a book that I will have by my side for the rest of my life. A lifetime best read.
April 6, 2019
This book came to me at the right time - I've used it to address some of my concerns about how readers' workshop happens in my classroom. It helped me add structure, while still allowing choice and it helped me find a way to help children find joy in writing about reading and in reading as a writer.
I'm also excited about what I might do next year that doesn't seem to fit this year.
I'm also excited about what I might do next year that doesn't seem to fit this year.
June 7, 2020
Good ideas for responses, but a bit too much theory for this book to be an easy read.
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