This might be the post you were looking for. It was a post in
the Reading/Writing chatboard.
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> Aimee Buckner's - Notebook Connections
> Fountas and Pinnell - Guiding Readers and Writers
>
> In my student's reading journals (3 subject notebooks) We
> have a section for Guided reading, independent reading,
Read
> Alouds.
> In the guided reading section I have them glue in stratgies
> (I type up our classs generated charts) I present during my
> whole class mini lesson and the students are able to refer
to
> the strategy notes during our guided reading sessions, as
> well as during their independent reading time.
> I've utilized many of the ideas from Fountas and Pinnell.
The
> reading journal really becomes the students' reading
> reference and record keeping journal. By the end of the
year
> most students have completely filled their journals with
> books they've read and their thoughts about the books. They
> are always impressed with how they've grown as readers in a
> nine month block.
> And it's an easy step to the reading/writing connection. We
> constanly refer back to our reading journals to id mentor
> texts to help with our writing during writer's workshop.

On 6/30/09, 4thGrTeacher wrote:
> I saw a post on one of the chatboards about reading
> notebooks/journals. Now I can't find it! Ugh!
>
> I'm also thinking about using a reader's notebook next year
> and need ideas for how to do it. The post I read mentioned
> how the teacher tells the students' that reader's notebooks
> are important because we can't see our thoughts so they need
> to be written down...or something like that. Have you found
> this post and can share it? Or do you have other ideas
> about reader's notebooks? Thanks!

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