This product is sold in packs of 5, it is also available in packs of 25.

Fountas & Pinnell’s Reader’s Notebook is an 8x10 spiral notebook, similar to what students use everyday, but specially designed to promote reflection and dialogue about reading. As described in the authors’ best-selling Guiding Readers and Writers, Grades 3-6, the Reader’s Notebook is practical and easy to use. In it, students transform traditional book reports into active dialogues. The notebook becomes a personal storehouse of students’ thoughts and feelings and a place to access them for later review, reflection, and sharing. It is also a way for teachers systematically to assess students’ responses to the texts they are reading independently.

Used throughout the academic year, the notebook serves as a continual record of one reader’s book list, interests, and reading responses. Students may write in longhand, make charts or quick sketches, or glue in their writings produced on a computer. The notebook also contains many different resources for writing about reading. It is organized into four easy-to-use, color-coded tabbed sections.

The notebook includes:
Guidelines for Reading Workshop
Reading List (tabbed section)
Reading Requirements List
Genres at a Glance
Student’s Reading Lists
Books to Read (tabbed section)
Reading Interests
Books to Read
Letters (tabbed section)
Form for a Friendly Letter
Guidelines for Proofreading Your Letter
Letter from Teacher
Possible Topics for Your Letter
Guided Reading/Book Club (tabbed section)
Preparing for a Book Discussion
Ways to Have a Good Discussion
How to Give a Book Talk

The Reader’s Notebook helps students account for what they read and become better readers by engaging in critical thinking and reflection about how to interpret a text; connecting reading and writing in many genres; and using the notebook to promote and support discussion. Emphasize the intersection of thinking, talking, and writing in students’ reading of a text. Have them use the Reader’s Notebook and explore the opportunities to expand their skills.