Two recent posts on Twitter. The first shows "speed dating" by undergraduate students at Queens College, thanks to Prof. Dina Weiss. The second points the way to a blog post I did on the NCTE blog (https://ncte.org/blog/2019/01/reader-response-notebook) about The Reader Response Notebook. 
The Reader Response Notebook By Ted Kesler The reader response notebook (RRN) is a ubiquitous tool in schools. In at least grades 2 through 8, teachers rely on this notebook as evidence of students’ reading. In my extensive visits to schools around the country, I noticed a common application for this notebook: students write summaries of the books they read, or respond to a teacher prompt, such as “Describe the main character” or “Tell what new information you learned from this text,” and always “Be sure to provide text evidence.” Ultimately, response after response by students are expository paragraphs or essays that are often solely directed to and read by the teacher for evaluation. Responses soon become monotonous, devoid of voice and intention. Here is an example from one of my 3 rd grader students in my early years of classroom teaching: The student met all the criteria for this response. She started wit...
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