1. Response journals/Writer’s notebook

2. Writer’s Notebook “Keeping a notebook is the single best way I know to survive as a writer. It encourages you to pay attention to your world, inside and out. It serves as a container to keep together all the seeds you gather until you’re ready to plant them. It gives you a quiet place to catch your breath and begin to write.” -Ralph Fletcher

3. Journals as Diaries • Famous people • Autobiographies • Historical Diaries • Pilgrims • Aztec warriors/Native Americans

4. Dialogue Journals • Students respond to and reflect upon books they are reading. Can be used for independent reading or class reading • Allows students to dialogue with peers and teachers • Silent dialogue

5. Comprehensive Journals • Journals can help with reading comprehension • Make connections with reading • Write down questions that do not make sense • Evaluate main characters, plot setting, resolution • Make predictions

6. Other Journal Uses • Thought of the day • Anything goes journal • News-tracker’s journal • Brainstorm journal • Interest journal