Category: graphic organizer
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ISN Part II
In Part I of my post on Interactive Student Notebooks (ISN), I wrote about why the notebook is useful for personalizing history class for students and for preventing loss because of its unique cover made by the student. As most of you are well aware, a book is much more than its cover! The inside…
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The Interactive Student Notebook- Part I
Interactive Student Notebook- Part IA Brief Introduction Last year, my colleague, Ken, and I started using something called an Interactive Student Notebook (ISN) for all of our classes. We got the idea from a workshop at our school run by History Alive! The most basic definition of an ISN is this: A notebook in which…
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Non-Fiction Reading Techniques
I find that my students do their best reading when given strategies that help them navigate through text book sections. Simply saying to a thirteen year old child (or any teenager for that matter) “Read pages 13-19 this evening for homework” doesn’t provide enough instruction. In order to get a student to think carefully and…