I was very clear with my students about one thing: I would be providing them with worksheets to help organize their thinking BUT they could easily do the same work in their own reading lives in a notebook. These are just tools to help them get used to reading and then writing about their reading. It is my hope that when they read books a month from now, they won’t necessarily need to get the character sketch sheet because they’ve used it enough to know how create their own version in a reader’s notebook. Isn’t that what we do as real readers?
