1. Interactive Student Notebook (ISN) Cathy Rocker, Literacy Coach

2. 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

3. 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

4. The Interactive Student Notebook consists of a composition notebook.

5. Now remember that part about organization? Good! You need to carefully number all your pages

6. 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.

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8. You will need tape to attach handouts to your notebook. (Your notes and creative processing) So what is inside?

9. Handouts Such as Your Interactive student notebook guidelines

10. Your Interactive student notebook guidelines will be READ SIGNED TURNED IN AND THEN TAPED ONTO THE FRONT COVER OF THE NOTEBOOK

11. Right-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

12. (Like this) Right side Reading notes

13. Right-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.

14. (Like this) Left side Web organizer Data table

15. Okay, so why are we doing this? The left-side, right-side orientation improves learning for the following reasons:

16. 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.