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//__ Lesson Plan: __// Monday, June 14, 2010

// Objective: //
 * Colleagues will be introduced to interactive notebooks; a writing tool designed to help students increase their comprehension and improve their metacognitive and organizational skills.
 * Colleagues will practice using three different write-to-learn strategies:
 * 1) Wordstorming (J. Allen)
 * 2) FLIP (J. Allen)
 * 3) Write Around (Daniels, Steineke, & Zennelman)

// Materials: //
 * * Wordstorm WS ( 1 per person)
 * Copies of “Integrating Interactive Notebook” article (1 per person)
 * FLIP WS (1 per person)
 * Sheet of large poster paper
 * Copies of lesson plan (1 per person)
 * Marker ||  ||

// Engagement: // Give each person a copy of the Wordstorm worksheet. Explain that we will be reading an article entitled, “Integrating Interactive Notebooks”. Write the title of the article down on the poster paper. Explain the directions of the Wordstorm worksheet. Explain that this is a pre-reading activity. Write the letters: E, I, L, S, and T on the poster paper. Have each person brainstorm as many words as possible that start with one of the letters listed above and would relate to the article. Give the group about 4-5 minutes to brainstorm. At the end of 4-5 minutes, ask each person to share his/her list with an elbow-partner. Encourage everyone to jot down words that they don’t have on their list and then to individually answer the two questions at the bottom of the Wordstorm worksheet. Again, have each person share his/her ideas with a partner. Go around the room and ask each pair to share their words and ideas. Record the words on the large poster paper.

// Investigation: // Give each person a copy of the article and of the FLIP Worksheet. Explain the directions of the FLIP worksheet. Give the group about 10 minutes to complete this worksheet. Then instruct the group to actually read the article.

// Discussion: // Discuss the main ideas of the article. Address the predictions and questions that people wrote during the Wordstorm and FLIP activities. Distribute student examples of interactive notebooks. Address any comments or questions. Discuss the write to learn strategies that were used (Wordstorm and FLIP).

// Application: // Explain that we are going to wrap up the lesson with a Write Around activity. Instruct each person to take out a sheet of paper. Explain that each person will spend 1 minute writing his/her thoughts, feelings, comments, and/or questions about the lesson and any of the strategies used. At the end of the minute, instruct the group to pass their papers to the person next to them. Explain that each person is to read the comments of their neighbor and then spend another minute writing. They are to write below the first person’s comments. They can choose to respond to the person’s comments or they can write about an entirely different topic. At the end of the minute, papers will get exchanged again and the cycle will restart.

// Resources: // Allen, J. //More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy//. USA: Stenhouse Publishers, 2008. Print

Daniels, H, N Steineke, and S Zemelman. //Content-Area Writing//. New Hampshire: Heinemann, 2007. Print. (p.74-80)

code Waldman, Cheryl, and Kent Crippen. "Integrating Interactive Notebooks." //Science Teacher// (Jan. 2009): 51-55. //National Science Teacher Assiociation//. Web. 13 June 2010 code