Calling all readers and writers: Dig into texts as you never have before with SENTENCE DIGS!By digging into the ways words come together to bring meaning to the text, readers can crack open the meaning of complex texts they are reading and writers can create sentences that are strong enough to hold the big ideas they want to express. Sentence Digs is an innovative guide from trusted literacy leader Aimee Buckner Haisten that shows teachers how to deepen th...

In my classroom, I have found that through the support of notebook work, students can grow their writing and strengthen their ideas. With strong ideas, they can write better first drafts. The work we do in notebooks before rushing into a draft gives us time to envision our work, to find mentor texts we love, and to study those texts. In doing so, we actually are doing a lot of the revision- on our vision- before we write the draft. -; Nonfiction Notebooks Aimee Buckner has introduced write...

In Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook , author Aimee Buckner focuses on the reading workshop and how teachers can transform students from couch potato- readers who read and answer basic questions about a text to readers who critically think beyond their reading. Buckner's fourth grade students use reader's notebooks as a place to document their thinking about a text and explore ideas without every entry being judged or graded as evidence of their reading progress. B...