Interactive Student Notebook(ISN)

Cathy Rocker, Literacy Coach

Table of Contents

• Notes on Interactive Notebooks……Page 1• Homework Assignment Sheet……...Page 2• Grade Sheet………………………….Page 3• Rubric Sample……………………….Page 4• Rubric Information Sheet…………...Page 5• Interactive NB-Left…………………..Page 6• Interactive NB-Right…………………Page 7• The Basics of Effective Learning…..Page 8• Vocabulary (working word walls)…..Page 9• Building Academic Background Knowledge……Page 10

Table of Contents(continued)

• Identifying Specific Challenges Faced by Students

in Building Academic Knowledge…………………………..Page 11• Strategic Teaching and Purposeful Planning……………..Page 12• Vocabulary Strategies……………………………………….Page 13• Planning Strategically………………………………………..Page 14• Praise/Question/Polish………………………………………Page 15• Praise/Question/Polish (cartoon)…………………………...Page 16• Using a Tuning Protocol…………………………………......Page 17• Determining Proficient Grade Level (student work LA)......Page 18• Determining Proficient Grade Level (student work Math…Page 19

• The Interactive

Student Notebook

consists of a

composition

notebook.

Now remember that part about organization?

Good! You need to carefully number all

your pages

• You will number the pages of your Interactive Student Notebooks. Page numbering is extremely important.

• ODD numbered pages (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) are on the RIGHT.

• EVEN numbered pages (0, 2, 4, 6, 8) are on the LEFT.

Like this!

2 3

You will need tape to attach handouts to your notebook.

(Your notes and creative processing)

So what is inside?

Handouts

Such as Your

Interactive

student

notebook

guidelines

• Your

Interactive

student

notebook

guidelines will be

• READ

• SIGNED

• TURNED IN AND THEN

• TAPED

• ONTO THE FRONT COVER

OF THE NOTEBOOK

Right-side, Left-side OrientationRight-side, Left-side Orientation

• The right side of the notebook is the input side. Teacher notes, class notes, discussion notes, and reading notes go on this side.

• This is the stuff that will be on tests

(Like this)

Right side

• Reading notes

Right-side, Left-side OrientationRight-side, Left-side Orientation

• The left side of the notebook is the output

side. This is where the students process new

ideas and improve understanding by using

illustrations, diagrams, flow charts, poetry, colors, matrices, cartoons, journal entries, and

other activities.

(Like this)

Left side

• Web organizer

• Data table

Okay, so why are we doing this?

Okay, so why are we doing this?

• The left-side, right-side orientation improves learning for the following reasons:

• The left-side, right-side orientation improves learning for the following reasons:

• Students use many of their multiple

intelligences.

• Note-taking becomes an active process.

• Students' creativity is unleashed.

• Notebooks help students to systematically

organize as they learn.

• Notebooks become a portfolio of individual

learning.