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[quote=Anonymous]When I was a 6th grade teacher we had students personalize their writers' notebooks with photos, drawings, whatever. Students had several days to complete the assignment and their first writing assignment was to write a paragraph explaining the significance behind one of the images on the notebook.

My first year I thought it was a stupid assignment too, but all the other teachers were doing it so I did too. I did realize that it helped me get to know the students a little bit (and them to know me since I made/shared my own notebook as a model), as well as to quickly identify whose notebook was whose.

More importantly, after the images served as inspiration for writing topics when kids had writers block (especially during the memoir unit - don't know what to write about, pick something from the cover of your notebook). The first entry was also a quick wAy to assess the students' writing skills - did they write one sentence or a real, coherent paragraph? Was it riddled with spelling errors?

I tend to agree with PPs that there was probably more to the assignment than slapping some stickers on a notebook.[/quote]

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