Interactive Student Notebook Your Key to Success in Reading / Accelerated Reading

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What is an Interactive Notebook? A personalized textbook A working portfolio – all of your notes, class work, quizzes – in one convenient spot.

Purpose Be a creative, independent and reflective thinker and writer throughout the year. Express your own ideas and process and or apply the information and skills learned in this class.

Date Title RIGHT PAGE LEFT PAGE Student Responses Pg # Teacher Information

Right Side The Right side belongs to your 8 th grade RELA teacher The Right side has all “testable” information –Table of Contents –Date –Title of Notes –Vocabulary –Class, reading, and discussion notes –Worksheets –Study Guides –Quizzes –Other relevant information

Right Side 1. Should be completely done. 2. Should clearly have both the title of the notes at the top and the date in the upper-right corner. The page should be numbered in the top right- hand corner 3. All pages are recorded on the table of contents 4. All right side assignments should be done only on right sides unless otherwise instructed by your teacher.

Examples of Right Side Assignments Articles Notes Graphic Organizers / Thinking Maps In-class Assignments Handouts

Left Side Left Side is to record your thinking, reflections, questions, thoughts, impressions, connections, and wonderings. The Left side belongs to YOU! –Apply skills learned in class –Use graphs, charts, Venn Diagrams, research from internet –Make connections between new and old learning –Questions –Thinking Maps –Poems –Songs –Homework –Classwork –Brainstorming –Sketches related to learning –Other relevant information

Examples of Left Side Assignments

All of these can be done for the left side of each right side page. Every individual right side page (even for many pages of the same assignment) must have an accompanying left side activity.

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Illustrated Outlines

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Student Materials Colored pencils Glue stick or tape

Maintaining the Interactive Notebook No ripped out pages or torn corners Date, title and number each page

Deductions for Lateness and Lack of Chronological Order 1. Interactive notebooks will be checked before progress reports and again before the ending of each six weeks period. 2. If a student has forgotten to bring their notebook for that particular class when a notebook check is announced, they may bring it by the very next calendar day, but points will be deducted from their notebook score for that check; After two calendar days, no points can be earned for that notebook check. 3. Any right side assignment that is found to be out of chronological order will cause a 10 point reduction in the overall score of a notebook evaluation.

Each time the notebook is evaluated it will may be worth anywhere from 10 points for a quick check to 100 points for a major check. Notebook checks are unannounced and can occur at any random time during the school year.

How long should it take to work on my notebook? Normally class time is given to work on right side assignments and sometimes this includes time to work on a left side. The expectation is that you will revisit the right side that evening or the next to review the material by completing a left side activity of your own choosing. Once you have a good understanding of the kinds of left side activities that can be done, it should take you about 5-10 minutes to complete a left side.

Setting up the Interactive Student Notebook THE ISN Setting up the Interactive Student Notebook THE ISN

Cover Using photos, clippings, markers, glue, paper, and scissors, etc., decorate the cover of your Interactive Student Notebook as if it were the cover to the book that tells the story of YOUR life thus far.