From Dan Mulligan Presentation

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Samples of Interactive Student Notebook

• From Dan Mulligan Presentation
• September 2008
• Russell County Public Schools

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Preparing Notebooks

• Assemble materials including spiral notebook,
  colored pencils, highlighters, glue sticks,
  scissors
• Allow for a Table of Contents (about 3 pages)
• Pre-number pages to discourage students from
  ripping out.
• Teacher prepared notes will be glued to one side
  of the pages. The other side of the page will
  allow the students to illustrate or to respond to
  the information.
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• In this way the student spends more time
  processing information.

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Guidelines for Using Notebooks

• Students first respond to the teacher prepared
  notes by highlighting or boxing in main ideas or
  by identifying similarities and differences with
  colored pencils or markers
• Next the students create their own
  representations with pictures, symbols, rhymes,
  cartoons, words, etc. that interpret the
  material.
• Then the students use their own representations
  to explain the information to each other.

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Benefits of Interactive Notebook

• Students learn to focus on key concepts, process
  information and connect new information to their
  prior knowledge.
• Students learn to organize and sift through
  written text plus notebooks with pictorial clues
  become excellent study guides

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