An interactive notebook is a collection of notes taken from various learning activities, including corresponding responses in graphic or written form. Originally developed in the 1970s, an interactive notebook contains numbered pages for notes, handouts, and assignments. It provides a place for both input from lessons and output in the form of graphic organizers, stories, reflections, and other creative responses. The document outlines various input activities teachers can provide, such as lecture notes, presentations, and readings, as well as output ideas for students like mind maps, timelines, and personal connections. Sample pages from a student interactive notebook are included.

1. THE INTERACTIVE
NOTEBOOK
Michelle Alspaugh
Amy Cooper

2. What Is An Interactive
Notebook?
A collection of notes taken
from reading,
listening, discussion, and
viewing, including
corresponding responses,
either in graphic or
written form.
Originally developed in the 1970s by Lee Swenson and his

3. 1.Cover (personalized)
2.Table of contents
3.Unit—cover page
4.Pages are numbered and labeled
5.Handouts fit neatly and do not hang
out

4. 1. 8 ½ X 11 3 subject notebook (believe me,
you will use it!)
2. Scissors
3. Markers/colored pencils
4. Old magazines
5. Glue sticks
6. Rulers

5. Input Ideas
•Cloze-style lecture notes
•Notes taken from student presentations (IB
orals, etc)
•Double-entry journals
•Reading comprehension of fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, etc. Guided questions/summary
activities. Also, selective highlighting strategy of
short articles
Output Ideas
•Mind maps
•Illustrated dictionary entries
•Diary entries from a character/post cards from
character
•Illustrated timeline
•Illustrated analogies
•Artifacts from multimedia—song lyrics, original
poems, relevant research(annotated)

6. Input Ideas
• Traditional one page
handouts/worksheets
previously created
(keep 1 inch margin)
•Guided info pages that
have instruction/terms
that you don’t want
student to lose
•Vocab strand activities
•Paired passages and
selective highlighting
•Passages to annotate
w/ and without guided
questions
Output Ideas
•Graphic organizers, such as
venn diagrams and T-charts
•Point of view (imagine a
situation/scenario from variety
of points of view
•Plus-Minus-Interesting
•Cause-effect graphic
organizers
•Fold-out/flappables
•Stories, imagined dialogues,
journals
•Personal
reflections/connections
•SOAPSTones

7. INPUT was lecture notes
on Media/bias for English
11
Instructions for Inputs
for IB 12

8. Sample Student WorkSample Student Work

9. http://tinyurl.com/interactivenotebook

10. http://tinyurl.com/interactivenotebook