How did you learn to take notes?

How did you learn to take notes?

• How did you learn to take notes?

• How skilled are you at note-taking?

• How do you think taking good notes can contribute to your success as a student in middle school? in high school? in college? in a job? in life?

• Are there any other benefits to note-taking skills?

Sometimes you take notes while listening to your teacher in class.

• Sometimes you take notes while listening to your teacher in class.

• Sometimes you take notes while you read (a textbook, a novel, an article, a poem, etc.)

• Sometimes you take notes when watching a film, TV, or a PowerPoint presentation.

You can write notes…

• You can write notes…

• randomly on lined paper

• as a Dialectical Journal

• in a Reading Response Log

• in an outline form

• on sticky-notes

• in margins of the text (if allowed!)

• There are even new electronic “notepads” for taking notes without pen or paper!

take notes for almost all learning situations

• take notes for almost all learning situations

• be more organized

• be more efficient and save time

• use them to review and study for tests

• and you will find them very easy to use!

If you are an AVID student, you are required to use Cornell note-taking strategies.

• If you are an AVID student, you are required to use Cornell note-taking strategies.

Student Name

• Student Name

• Today’s Date

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