Interactive Notebooks
We use these notebooks to reinforce reading skills and as a summarizing tool for students to illustrate and add to their learning in their own way. It is important that parents do not illustrate or tell students what to draw. Students should be reading one paragraph of notes at a time and illustrations should match what the paragraph is telling them. They should also be labeling their illustrations. It is fine to encourage and help them interpret the notes, then talk about what illustrations might be appropriate/inappropriate for that paragraph.
Here is what students should be doing:
1 -- Read the page of notes.
2-- Number each paragraph and draw a line to separate each paragraph. The line should extend across the blank page beside the notes. That is where its matching illustration will go.
3 -- Draw a box around the page's title and the main idea of each paragraph.
4 -- Draw a cloud around any words you don't understand. Find out what they mean and write it somewhere in the margin.
5 -- Underline the supporting details in each paragraph.
6 -- On the page beside the notes, illustrate each paragraph.
7 -- Label the illustrations. This is important in case you go back to your notes later and can't remember what things are in the illustration!
8 -- Color the illustrations neatly with colored pencils or crayons. DO NOT USE MARKERS! They bleed through the page.
We use these notebooks to reinforce reading skills and as a summarizing tool for students to illustrate and add to their learning in their own way. It is important that parents do not illustrate or tell students what to draw. Students should be reading one paragraph of notes at a time and illustrations should match what the paragraph is telling them. They should also be labeling their illustrations. It is fine to encourage and help them interpret the notes, then talk about what illustrations might be appropriate/inappropriate for that paragraph.
Here is what students should be doing:
1 -- Read the page of notes.
2-- Number each paragraph and draw a line to separate each paragraph. The line should extend across the blank page beside the notes. That is where its matching illustration will go.
3 -- Draw a box around the page's title and the main idea of each paragraph.
4 -- Draw a cloud around any words you don't understand. Find out what they mean and write it somewhere in the margin.
5 -- Underline the supporting details in each paragraph.
6 -- On the page beside the notes, illustrate each paragraph.
7 -- Label the illustrations. This is important in case you go back to your notes later and can't remember what things are in the illustration!
8 -- Color the illustrations neatly with colored pencils or crayons. DO NOT USE MARKERS! They bleed through the page.