Interactive Student Notebook!!!!

If you've been following my blog this year you already know that my Interactive Student Notebook is 

my pride & joy!!!

I'm so excited to launch my new product!!!! 
This is a product I worked very hard to develop as I could not find any other resource like it on line.
When I moved to middle school I found myself with no curriculum, just the standards and was told it was up to me to figure it out.
WHAT?!?!?!!?! I was only a 2nd year teacher!!!
I knew the ISN was what I needed!!! There were no resources for it online so slowly but surely I started to develop it with my students to the product it is today.


It is truly my students' mini bible and they take so much pride in their work.
My now highschoolers call me back EVERY year thanking me for this resource.
For my it's the perfect differentiation & alternative assessment tool.

In the past three years that my students & I have used this tool it has greatly evolved.
I know use a combination of notebooking (a style of note-taking) and reflections.
In this packet, I created 100 templates for you to choose from and mix & match
 to work for each of your lessons.


You will see your students & lessons transform and blossom as you begin using this resource.

Here is a link to my previous Interactive Student Notebook posts with lots of pictures of students samples.
(scroll to the end of this post to see pictures of my students' notebook entries)
I presented my Interactive Student Notebook in the fabulous Everything Intermediate Teaching Expo
where I share my "how to" get started, organize, and use across the curriculum.


My presentation will soon be available as an individual presentation for you to purchase via Teachers Notebook. In the meantime you can catch it via the expo

(click the images above to purchase this item at a store of your choice )

The file is a zipped PDF. file.

You will need to unzip it to view it. Download WinZip (safe & free) to access the file.

This notebook resource is classroom tested & Common Core aligned!

This file contains an interactive student notebook packet with cover pages, a mini lesson, and 100 pages worth of templates to help you and your students get started with using this wonderful strategy. The interactive Student Notebook is the ultimate differentiating & alternative assessment tool and can be used across the curriculum - in all subjects and from the primary grades all the way through high school. An interactive Student Notebook serves as a live journal, personalized textbook, and a dynamic working portfolio for your students. 

a cover page for the notebook (with the STARS)
A title page (for student information)
A guide to an Interactive Student Notebook for students to glue into their notebook.
A rubric.
A mini lesson to teach the students how to interact with the notebook. (Let them glue it into their notebook as well)
A Table of Contents for the students to keep track of their mini lessons.
A cover page template to use with the beginning of each unit.
100 Templates for both the right side (teacher input) and left side (student input).
*Mix and Match the templates to make them work for you, for each lesson, and for each student.
Use a variety of reflections to differentiate instruction for your students.

I print out the lessons for my ELL & ESE students while the other students handwrite the notes for differentiation (with some exceptions)

The Interactive Student Notebook nurtures all learning modalities & multiple intelligences.

To read feedback, reviews, questions & answers others had about this product visit my Expo Q&A post.

I'd love to hear from you!!!!!

Any questions, ideas, and feedback are welcome!