The Reader Response Notebook: Teaching toward Agency, Autonomy, and Accountability - Softcover

Kesler, Ted

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814138403 ISBN 13: 9780814138403

Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2018

Synopsis

The reader response notebook (RRN) is a tried-and-true tool in elementary and middle school classrooms. However, teachers and students often express frustration with this tool. Responses can read as though students are just going through the motions, with little evidence of deep comprehension. With this book, teacher educator and consultant Ted Kesler reinvigorates the RRN by infusing this work with three key practices:
--Encouraging responses to reflect design work, using a variety of writing tools
--Expanding what counts as text, including popular culture texts that are important in students' lives outside of school
--Making the RRN an integral part of a community of practice
Providing myriad examples of student work and explicit teaching in classrooms, Kesler, with a community of grade school teachers and students, demonstrates how students' creative responses lead to deep comprehension of diverse texts and ultimately help them to develop their literate identities. This book colorfully illustrates how to teach students toward agency, autonomy, and accountability in their reader response notebooks.

About this title

About the Author

Ted Kesler taught kindergarten and grades 1, 3, and 4 in New York City public schools. He is now an associate professor in literacy at Queens College, CUNY, where he codirects the graduate preservice program for elementary grades 1-6 and directs the sabbatical program.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0814138403
• ISBN 13: 9780814138403
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 155