Double Entry Journals
Journals are a convenient, flexible method for recording learning and personal response. Double-entry journals are a note-taking method that allow students to record ideas that are conceptually related in two columns. Double entry journals encourage students to actively engage with a text as they read.
Steps:
1. Students divide their paper in half lengthwise. (Or use an open notebook with the left and right pages each acting as a column.)
2. On the left side, students write key words, quotes, or text passages.
3. On the right side, students record reactions, interpretations, supporting details, or personal responses to the word in the left column.
Possible Curricular Connections:
GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.3 Structure and restructure ideas and information in personally meaningful ways to clarify and extend understanding.
GLO 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, literary, and media texts.
2.1 Use Strategies and Cues
2.1.1 Make connections between previous experiences, prior knowledge, and a variety of texts, and apply them to new contexts.
2.1.2 Use a variety of comprehension strategies to make sense of familiar and unfamiliar texts and remember ideas.
GLO 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.
3.1 Plan and Focus
3.1.4 Prepare and use a plan to access, gather, and record in own words relevant information.
3.3 Organize, Record, and Assess
3.3.2 Make notes in point form, summarizing major ideas and supporting details.
Steps:
1. Students divide their paper in half lengthwise. (Or use an open notebook with the left and right pages each acting as a column.)
2. On the left side, students write key words, quotes, or text passages.
3. On the right side, students record reactions, interpretations, supporting details, or personal responses to the word in the left column.
Possible Curricular Connections:
GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.3 Structure and restructure ideas and information in personally meaningful ways to clarify and extend understanding.
GLO 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, literary, and media texts.
2.1 Use Strategies and Cues
2.1.1 Make connections between previous experiences, prior knowledge, and a variety of texts, and apply them to new contexts.
2.1.2 Use a variety of comprehension strategies to make sense of familiar and unfamiliar texts and remember ideas.
GLO 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.
3.1 Plan and Focus
3.1.4 Prepare and use a plan to access, gather, and record in own words relevant information.
3.3 Organize, Record, and Assess
3.3.2 Make notes in point form, summarizing major ideas and supporting details.