A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You | 
 enlarge | Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Category: Book
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1867
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.8
ISBN: 0380784300
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.623
EAN: 9780380784301
ASIN: 0380784300
Publication Date: August 1, 1996
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Ages 8-12. Fans of Harriet the Spy who want to try keeping their own writer's notebook will appreciate this inspiring handbook. Written in a direct, non-condescending style, writer-to-writer, it offers realistic, experienced advice on how to keep notes and use them to create stories and poems. Fletcher, author of the ALA Notable children's book Fig Pudding, fleshes the book out with numerous examples from his own notebooks and from those of other writers, child and adult.
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Writers are like other people, except for at least one important difference. Other people have daily thoughts and feelings, notice this sky or that smell, but they don't do much about it. Not writers. Writers react. And writers need a place to record those reactions. That's what a writer's notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don't want to forget . . . .
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 A Writer's Notebook March 16, 2008
Veronica Greenlaw (Dearborn Heights, MI USA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I found this book not very helpful. It was an easy read, but not very informative if you are just beginning the writer's notebook.
Thoughtful and inspiring August 6, 2007
P. Kropp (Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ralph Fletcher does more than just tell you to write about something in your notebook, he inspires you through story and example to be the best writer that you can be. Excellent book to use in the classroom from about 3rd grade onto high school.
A "Must Have" Book for Writers and Writing Teachers July 22, 2007
Janice Malone
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ralph Fletcher demystifies how to make a writer's notebook work for anyone who is serious (or even not-so-serious) about bringing words to life on paper. He has a way of making the the abstract concrete and the complex simple. A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK: UNLOCKING THE WRITER WITHIN YOU delivers what the the title promises.
It's the real thing! December 15, 2006
Susan Larson (Lilburn, GA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a newspaper columnist and substitute teacher. I was subbing in a fourth grade class and due to a sudden shift in schedules, I had about 20 minutes to fill. I saw Fletcher's book on the chalk ledge and thought I'd read a chapter and make my own professional commentary. When I read the part about collecting ideas in a "ditch," I pulled my writer's notebook out of my coat pocket and shared all my little bits and pieces with the kids. It just so happened I'd recorded incidents that had happened in that school. What great support for my "real life" lesson.
I Teach My Creative Writing Students with this Book August 12, 2006
E. B. Howell (Myrtle Beach, SC USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was introduced to Ralph Fletcher's A Writer's Notebook this during the Coastal Area Writing Project, Coastal Carolina University, Janet Files. This "project" is an intensive, 4 week writing "submersion" for teachers. We learn how to teach our students how to write. Really write. Not how to write an essay for test, but to write descriptively and passionately.
I now use this great book, which is very reader friendly and written in complete layman's terms, for my yearlong, high school creative writing class. I love the book, and the kids do too.
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