Tabs+for+Writing+Notebooks

Items in bold are tabs for Instruction/Teacher Notebooks. Those not in bold are student tabs. If they are for both, it is noted.
 * Tabs for Writing Notebooks ** (see revision 1/09)

 **Tab 1. Curriculum**
 * The writing notebook is a place to store/organize student writing as well as any handouts related to the mini-lessons taught.
 * The notebook serves as an assessment tool and a working portfolio where students are instructed to go back to prior pieces of writing and address new target skill revisions or editing. The following list is not comprehensive. Feel free to add your own.
 * 1) GLCE Genre Wheel
 * 2) GLCEs
 * 3) District or building pacing map (Year at a Glance)
 * 4) Target Skills by Month
 * 5) School Improvement Plan
 * 6) Reading and Writing Genres Flowchart

Teacher’s Guide pgs. 22, 23, 24
 * Tab 2. Rubrics**

Tab 3. Notebook Overview and Handouts for Beginning of Year (Both)
 * 1) Writing Notebook Letter
 * 2) Tabs for Writing Notebooks
 * 3) Craft Lessons Log (Things Good Writers Know)
 * 4) Pocket Chart Labels
 * 5) Writing Idea Lists (Primary and Upper El)
 * 6) Preformatted Target Skill Papers
 * 7) Kindergarten – lines w/picture box
 * 8) Primary – gray w/thick lines
 * 9) Primary – X lined
 * 10) Upper – X lined
 * 11) Daily Writing Workshop
 * 12) What Do I Do When I’m Done?
 * 13) How to Get Help When the Teacher is Busy
 * 14) How to Find a Topic
 * 15) Grade Level Minimum Expectations
 * 16) Authors’/ Writers’ Share Chair
 * 17) Homework Notebook Chart
 * 18) Journal Chart
 * 19) Writing Workshop Participation Chart
 * 20) Fluency Chart
 * 21) Writing Survey
 * 22) Disclaimer
 * 23) Conferencing Template


 * Tab 4. Bibliographies to support Craft Plus**
 * 1) Craft Plus Daily Writing Lesson Plan Bibliography
 * 2) Building Bibliography – Titles in library, book room or teacher owned
 * 3) Readers for Writers
 * 4) Google Search for on line texts


 * Tab 5. Craft Plus Professional Development and Research**
 * 1) Craft Plus Overview PowerPoint
 * 2) Writing Workshop Presentation
 * 3) Writing Environment Classroom Evaluation
 * 4) Marzano Research

Tab 6. Descriptive (The following information is kept in this section) – (Both)
 * 1) Verbs
 * 2) K-1 Descriptive Attributes
 * 3) 2-3 Descriptive Attributes
 * 4) 4-8 Descriptive Attributes
 * 5) Details (Tell Me More)
 * 6) Comparisons
 * 7) Hooks
 * 8) Beginnings and Endings

Tab 7. Poetry (Both)

Tab 8. Narrative/Story (Both) A. Personal/Observational B, Imaginative
 * 1) Mentor Texts
 * 2) Personal Narrative Key Ingredients
 * 3) Personal Narrative Table
 * 4) Personal Narrative Instructional Procedures
 * 5) Pocket Chart Visual
 * 6) 11 Ways to Title a Story
 * 7) Transitions/ Key Words
 * 8) Personal Narrative Endings
 * 9) Personal Narrative Beginning Paragraph
 * 10) Personal Narrative Prewriting Outline (Snake Ate Rat)
 * 11) Personal Narrative Beginning
 * 12) Beginning Prewrite
 * 13) Middle Prewrite
 * 14) Ending Prewrite
 * 15) Disclaimer
 * 16) Modified Venn Diagram for Narrative
 * 17) P.A.T.S. for Paragraphs (when to indent)
 * 1) Realistic
 * 2) Historical
 * 3) Folk tale
 * 4) Fairy tale
 * 5) Greek myths
 * 6) Fantasy
 * 7) Legends
 * 1. Modified Venn Diagram for Narrative
 * 2. P.A.T.S. for Paragraphs (when to indent)

Tab 9. Expository/Information (Both) - Masters from Listen to This
 * 1) Persuasive
 * 2) Opinion
 * 3) Position
 * 4) Comparative
 * 5) Descriptive
 * 6) Process/How To
 * 7) (Etc.)

Tab 10. Composing Skills (Both)
 * 1) Sentence variety
 * 2) Hyperbole
 * 3) Onomatopoeia
 * 4) Idioms
 * 5) Antithesis
 * 6) Anadiplosis
 * 7) Alliteration
 * 8) And other literary elements and techniques

Tab 11. Reading Response (Both)

Tab 12. Practice (Anything the student does on his or her own time)

Tab 13. Homework (Possibly Both – To be discussed)
 * 1) Informational letters (for parents) to accompany homework