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TAKE THE CHALLENGE: Be the first to write a positive review of The Reader Response Notebook with comments on Amazon, then contact me and I'll send you a free copy.
What's New about The Reader Response Notebook?  Building on strong thinking about reading response work, I emphasize three other elements that contribute to a new vision for reading response notebooks. First, I encourage “designing on the page” that welcomes a wide array of writing and drawing resources. Second, I expand what counts as a text, including popular culture media. Third, I emphasize the sociocultural context of classroom literacy practices that supports students’ generative responses in their RRNs. Most of all, in the chapters of this book, I’ll show the application of these three elements using a systemic approach that guides students towards agency, autonomy, and accountability.  I emphasize an "introspective journey," rather than an "retrospective account" (Hancock, 1993). In a typical notebook response, children respond to what they already read, often in the form of a summary or in response to a teacher-provided prompt, so they produce