Ways to Use Notebooks

- brainstorming
- first drafts
- new vocabulary
- quotations
- interesting passages
- store ideas/junkyard
- journal about the writing process
- questions for instructor for conferencing
- trying new strategies
- experimenting with genres
- doodling to flush out ideas
- recording events
- research data collection
- prompt for classroom management's sake
- way to document new skills/concepts/strategies in own words
- copy lesson objective
- copy idea to ruminate on
- "What you learned in science" to link pieces of days together
- 10 words to combine into a sentence or paragraph

Notesbooks provide:
- ownership of writing
- organize in sections (different content areas)
- use TOC (documents assignments)
- paste in handouts
- sticky notes to identify purpose of writing event/lesson

Further Reading:
- Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook by Aimee Buckner and Ralph Fletcher
- Language! what Lewiston teachers are required to teach.