I have been a big fan of Proteacher.net for several years now. I had seen many teacher post about their FROG, STAR, MOOSE, or other notebooks. These notebooks varied in their purpose and contents. Some teachers used them for home school connections and others use them for classroom work. I decided since our mascot is the Roadrunner,(I live in the High Desert of Southern California) we would have Roadrunner Notebooks. We brainstormed what Roadrunner would stand for. I posted my title page as a Google Doc.
In case Google Docs isn't showing right now for you, Roadrunner stands for R.eally O.utstanding A.cademically D.etermined R.oadrunners U.sing N.otebooks N.ow as an E.xcellent R.esource. My notebooks are a resources for the classroom. There are resources that I have collected from posts made from Proteacher.net and many other sites. I will only post ones that have been created by me. I will give credit whenever I have a resource that is listed on the sheet. I have been adding to the notebooks over the past few years and I have laminated most sheets for durability. I just reorganized them. This is the set up:
Title Page, '10 Ways To Be a Good Student,' Rights
& Responsibilities'
First Divider--Genres
'Genres at a Glance'
11 pages that explain & give examples of the
different genres
Second Divider--Good Readers
Three pages of Comprehension Skills with
pictures to match the skills. These come from
the Santa-Maria Bonita School District (GREAT
RESOURCES!!)
http://www.smbsd.org/page.cfm?p=2442
Comprehension Strategies page (Strategies
Unlimited, Inc.)
Four 'Reading is Thinking' pages that include
making connections (followed by a Using
Connections page from Readinglady.com),
Making Predictions, Asking Questions, &
Visualizing
Third Divider--Grammar
Four sheets on Commas (also from Santa Maria
Bonita SMB)
A sheet on Subjects & Predicates (SMB)
Sheet of 4 Types of Sentences (Proteacher.net)
Kinds of Sentences
Declarative (SMB)
Exclamatory (SMB)
Imperative (SMB)
Interrogative (SMB)
Fourth Divider--Mastery Club/Top 10
Mastery Club Challenge (Heather Renz
http://www.mrs.renz.net/)
Top 10 (the students find top ten of something
like fruit, then alphabetize, use adjectives to
describe each, etc.
Fifth Divider--Parts of Speech
Adjectives, has a list of about 80+ adjectives
Adjective Song lyric (by Ron Brown Intelli-
tunes..see my 1st post)
Helping Verbs (SMB)
The Irregular Verb be (SMB)
Prepositions, has a definition and list of about 50
prepositions
Sixth Divider--Reading Response
Reading Response Starters (sorry because I
scanned it you have to click on the link to see
it!)
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B8AQ_IzX1ifJYjUxYWUyY2QtN2Y0NC00MDVmLTkyMWUtYzdlNmI2OGFkNTgw&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
Front
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B8AQ_IzX1ifJNzE4Njg2ZDAtMWE1YS00ZGFmLWIwYjgtYTAyYzMwMjc5NzUx&hl=en
Back
Reading Response Sheets, the students fill them
out for their silent reading time, approximately
3 times a week. They only have to use 1
starter each day.
Seventh Divider--Resources
Four sheets on Author's Purpose
Homophones, list of approximately 100 sets
How Do You Feel Today? sheet of 70 different
faces with the emotion printed below the face
Onomatopoeia Words, list of approximately 100
words
US States & Their Abbreviations
(abcteach.com)
Eighth Divider--Spelling
Some Spelling Mnemonics
Money Words
Phone Number
Both of the above are used periodically for
spelling practice.
Ninth Divider--Vocabulary
My New Word sheets, a word web I got at an ELL
training, they do one each week for one of the
words from our LA series
Word Frame sheets, another way for them to
show one of our weekly vocabulary words
Two sets of Mini Thesauruses
Tenth Divider--Math
Measurement Abbreviations (abcteach.com)
Math Strategies
Problem Solving Strategies (sanchezclass.com)
Fractions, Decimals, Percents, & Money
8 Workmats from Math Series (HM) they use dry
erase markers on them
I know I will continue to add to the notebooks for my students. There are so many amazing resources out there and I want my students to learn how to use many different kinds of resources. I hope this is beneficial to you in some way. Thanks!
(Oh yes and whoooo hoooo for Blogger being back up!!)
Thank you so much for posting this! I am creating Literacy Binders next year for my students and currently have a Donor's Choose project that will hopefully be funded to help with this! I've been trying to think of all the items I plan to put in it.
ReplyDeleteRachel
Go Fourth! With Owens
I love this! How have I never come across your great blog! Thanks for commenting on mine! I cannot wait to read the rest of your posts! (I like to use exclamation marks apparently.)
ReplyDeleteAmanda
Third Grade Experience