Interactive Reading Notebooks

Be sure to check out one of our newest items in our Teachers Pay Teachers store at A Love for Reading. We are very excited to share these with everyone.  We started on the journey of Interactive Reading Notebooks last year, and basically used them as a note taking strategy with our students.  Our students loved their notebooks, and wanted to make sure all year long that they would get to take them home with them.  Some of the students wanted to keep them so they could use them in the next grade.

They really were successful!

This summer we decided to enhance them a little more and make them correlate to the Reading Dump Sheet that we created right before SOL testing last year.  (We are getting ready to download a digital copy of it to the TPT store also.  It should be ready sometime next week.)  Our Reading Dump Sheet, Interactive Notebooks and Comprehension Scavenger Hunts are all interlinked to allow lots of guided practice and application in comprehension.  They are closely linked to the technology enhanced questions that are appearing more and more on the end of year testing.
If you have any questions about how to use these resources, please comment and we will respond to you and share any experiences that we have had with them.

Keep watching for more Interactive Reading Resources weekly!!!

Your Thoughts......

What if you were given the chance to attend the reading professional development seminar of your choice?  What would it be?  We love to hear from those that are in the trenches, and know what they are looking for in professional development.  We would love to hear from you, so that we can start some post on our blog that are of interest to you.

I have been thinking a lot about this as I am planning our upcoming team times, and planning to focus more on specific areas throughout this year.   I have my plan in place, but I would love to see your thoughts to make sure I am on track.

Would it be....
word study?  fluency?  specific comprehension skills & strategies?  vocabulary?  writing?  application?  graphic organizers?  testing strategies? and the list goes on.

Let us hear from you, as we try to cater to your needs and what you are needing to hear from us.  Please comment below with some of the areas you would like to see more of from us.  THANKS!!!!