Interactive Notebooks

I think interactive notebooks are brilliant! If I would've known about them, I would've incorporated them into my lesson plans a while ago! An interactive notebook is a notebook or journal (I prefer composition notebooks) that students use to hold important information that they can interact with in different ways. This may be worksheets, cut, colored and glued into the notebook with important grade level content, graphic organizers drawn or glued in, small flip books, etc.

I found all of my interactive notebook pages on TeachersPayTeachers. I am teaching ELA this year, so all of my interactive notebook pages are obviously Reading/Language Arts. However, there are interactive notebook pages, worksheets and ideas for almost every grade and every subject. My interactive notebook pages came from Nicole Shelby and Laurane Rae.

I DID NOT create these pages, but I wanted to show you an idea I had to aid in the lesson planning process. If you like my idea and would like to integrate interactive notebooks into your curriculum, please check out Interactive Notebook Pages on TPT.

I created a teacher Interactive Notebook binder to help aid in lesson planning and be used as a sample/example for student work. I will also use this binder as a reference to remember what important information should be filled in by students.

Inside this binder, I have ALL interactive notebook pages placed inside sheet protecters. All extra printouts are also inside each sheet protector (in case your students need extra copies). 

I have my interactive binder tabbed by subject. Since I am teaching ELA this year, I have Phonics, Language Arts and Reading. Each tab has a table of contents written down in order of standard.

This will help in the lesson planning process as well. I will be bringing this binder to planning meetings to make sure we are hitting each standard, and inputing important interactive pages into our plans. 

I will let you know how it goes this year!

Let's keep it up for the little hands, and continue working on our lesson plans!

- Amber