Are you looking for something authentic and meaningful for your students to do during their daily independent reading time? Then you are ready to start using reader's notebooks with your students! Utilizing a reader's notebook is a perfect addition to your daily reading workshop routine.

Check out my video, where I explain how I introduce reader's notebooks with my students!

Video:Introducing Reader's Notebooks

Included in this resource:

• * 13 scripted mini-lessons
• * Colorful posters to display as anchor charts
• * Student reproducibles for every mini-lesson

Mini-lessons include:

• Readers celebrate their brand new reader’s notebooks with a decorating party.
• Readers demonstrate expected behaviors with their reader’s notebooks.
• Readers respond to what they read in their notebooks.
• Readers use sticky notes to show their thinking
• Readers keep a record of their reading.
• Readers can respond to a fiction text by writing a response letter.
• Readers can respond to a non-fiction text by writing a response letter.
• Readers self-reflect on their reader’s notebook by using a rubric.
• Readers self-reflect on their independent reading behaviors and habits by using a rubric.
• Readers read a variety of different genres.
• Readers read with expression and fluency.
• Readers have strong reading behaviors and habits.
• Readers create reading goals to help them become better readers.

Also included:

* Alternative to purchasing and using composition notebooks for reader’s notebooks.

* Cover pages for reading binders, instead of using composition notebooks. Resources include cover pages (in color and black and white) and directions.

***** Important- Please Read *****

Reading Workshop Bundle

Unit 1, Launching Reading Workshop in your Primary Classroom

Implementing Reading Workshop in Your Primary Classroom

Unit 2, Reading Workshop: Metacognition: Thinking about Reading

Reading is Thinking

Unit 3, Implementing Reader's Notebooks with Reading Workshop

Reader’s Notebook

Unit 4, Reading to Learn: Informational Text Features

I Spy Informational Text Features!

Unit 5, Character Study Unit

Character Study Unit

Unit 6, Diving Deep with Book Clubs

Book Clubs

Also included in the bundle:

Classroom Library Kit

Classroom Library Kit

Reading Workshop Book Awards Celebration

Reading Workshop Book Awards Celebration

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Thanks for checking out my resource!

Melissa :)