Here are a few of the great tips Susan L. has found about using Interactive Notebooks with InterActions:

Tips
1. Make it personal – allow students to put a photo of themselves on the front page
2. New cover page at the beginning of each unit – students color corner to corner (no markers) with at least three pictures that represent the unit.
3. Reference specific pages in a student’s notebook when talking about ideas for others Interactive notebook to see.
4. She recommends homework – student numbering the pages of their notebook, then students peer review for the grade.
5. She numbers bottom right for odd pages, bottom left for even.
6. Title and date in the upper right (odd) or left (even)
7. She has a right side/left side table of contents
8. Homework first week – have students read the insets and highlight, underline and write questions on sticky notes about the procedures
9. Uses the notebook for parent conferences.
10. Students create flip pages if they run out of room and need to write more than is available on
one page.

There are a million more that Susan is ready to share! Come see how teachers are using these notebooks in OCPS InterActions classes!