Each of these examples comes from the classroom of a teacher in the Partnership for Literacy

Reader's Marks

"Alone" :  A selection (p.27) from Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (middle school)

"Remember Me" on Gossip (middle school)

Middle school students read three William Carlos Williams poems and wrote their reactions to the poems before and after discussion

Writing

"Alone" used as a model for creative writing (middle school)

Written Conversation  

Written conversation (transcribed) between two high school students immediately after finishing the novel Of Mice and Men

Written conversation (transcribed) between two middle school students after reading the first chapters of the novel Girl Who Owned a City