Today I’m sharing a printable interactive notebook table of contents for students to glue in their inbs at the beginning of each unit.
Last year, I had my students keep a table of contents at the front of their interactive notebooks. It was an utter failure. So, this summer, I decided I was going to do away with the table of contents. My students had not utilized it to locate pages, and it just wasn’t a battle I felt like fighting.
Then, a few days before school started, I decided that I would have my students create a mini interactive notebook table of contents for each unit/chapter. This would take the place of the pockets we made last year that none of my students really used.
When we glued in our first table of contents for Unit 1, I told my students that this table of contents was one hundred percent their responsibility. I would not be reminding them to enter the new pages on their table of contents, but I would be grading it at the end of each unit. And, you know what? It’s been working so far. Every day, I see my students adding the titles of our new interactive notebook pages to the table of contents.
I wasn’t sure how many entry lines to put on the table of contents page. I settled on 15. If this isn’t enough, I will make an extender page that students will be able to tape at the bottom of the page to have more room to write.
I’m feeling a lot better about the table of contents situation now! Plus, this makes our interactive notebook seem more like a textbook which is good because it is my students’ textbook.
Free Download of Interactive Notebook Table of Contents for Each Unit
Interactive Notebook Unit Table of Contents (PDF) (1510 downloads )
Interactive Notebook Unit Table of Contents (Editable Publisher File ZIP) (1033 downloads )
Ms Leckman's Mathematics Classes 2019-2020
Sunday 22nd of September 2019
Thank you so much! It has been a while since I taught Alg1 and have been floundering bit - this really helps me and the kids!
Unknown
Monday 7th of January 2019
Thank you , where is the link to download?
Unknown
Tuesday 22nd of August 2017
I'm sure that the answer to this question is somewhere. NY=not yet, B?, A=accomplished
Is that what the codes mean?
Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove)
Wednesday 6th of September 2017
A and B are letter grades. NY = Not Yet
Unknown
Saturday 10th of October 2015
Hi, I Love this idea, but can't seem to find the link to download it...can you help me please?
Unknown
Tuesday 28th of July 2015
Sarah,
I, too, have been frustrated with my students lack of referring to the Table of Contents. I like this idea. I think it may also help to have a Unit Table of Contents at the beginning. What fonts did you use for this? I would love to keep it uniform and create something similar to what you have. As usual, you're awesome and I LOVE what you're doing. One of these days when I have time I will share with you everything that you have inspired me to do. Thanks for sharing everything for free.
Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove)
Monday 5th of October 2015
Thanks Jenny!