Book Diaries: Connecting Free Reading with Instruction, Home with School, and Kids with Books (In the Classroom).

Steen, Patricia

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ERIC Number: EJ435558

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Publication Date: 1991

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Book Diaries: Connecting Free Reading with Instruction, Home with School, and Kids with Books (In the Classroom).

Steen, Patricia

Reading Teacher, v45 n4 p330-33 Dec 1991

Describes using book diaries as a way for students to respond in writing to their reading as they practice the comprehension strategies learned in class; also describes using the diaries as an informal means of assessing students' learning and communicating regularly with parents. (MG)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Informal Assessment, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Reading Writing Relationship, Student Journals, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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