Reader Response Notebooks

HOORAY! The book is out. You can purchase it online here (click on the picture!): Here's the Table of Contents: Here's the focus of the chapters: The book follows the trajectory of the reading response notebook work as it unfolds across an academic year. The first chapters describe explicit teaching of RRN strategies that we want all students to know and use. Later chapters will demonstrate how students develop agency for the strategies we teach and generate their own, then through ongoing sharing sessions, they develop autonomy. In Chapter 1, “A New Vision of the Reading Response Notebook,” I define the new vision of the reader response notebook that is the focus of this book, and how it differs significantly from the more standard uses of the RRN in schools. I explain some of the theories that this vision is based on. I also present an expanded vision of what counts as a text in school, including popular culture texts. In Chapter 2, “Getting Started,” I exp