Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why use a writer's notebook? -- Getting started -- Planting seeds -- Observing our world -- Using children?s literature -- Developing a notebook entry -- Using the writer's notebook as a workbench -- Creating a unit of study for the writer's notebook -- Gathering language -- Integrating poetry -- Engaging boys in notebook writing -- Using the notebook across the curriculum -- Refining the use of the writer's notebook -- Appendix: ncte beliefs about the teaching of writing -- Works cited -- Author.
