Note-Taking Supporting Your Students

Note-Taking

• Supporting Your Students

Note-taking

• Note-taking is a way of recording key information and details from a reading or from class.

Why Teach Note-Taking?

• Note-taking can help students

• remember important facts and details from a reading.

• It can help students think through important information until they truly understand it.

• Good readers take notes before,

• during, and after reading a selection.

• Good readers watch for important

• parts of the text and write them down.

• Good readers review their notes later.

It’s in the Outcomes!

• e.g. Grade 7 SCO 8.3

• - understand that note-taking is purposeful ( e.g. personal use, gathering information for an assignment, recording what has happened and what others have said) and many forms, (e.g. lists,

• summaries, observations, and descriptions)

“It is critical to support learners through the learning process and gradually release responsibility to them.”

• Keene & Zimmerman - Mosaic of Thought

Types of Note-taking

• 5 W’s and H Organizer

• Summary Notes

• Timeline or sequence notes

• Key word Notes

• Double Entry Journals

• Cornell Note -Taking

5 W’s and H organizer

Summary Notes

• Chapter 3 - Settlement Patterns

• Main Idea:

• Most of Canada’s population patterns are based on the interaction of history and culture with the land.

• Nova Scotia and New Brunswick:

• Based on first nation communities that were already there.

• Maliseet and Mi’kmaq communities.

• North:

• Coastal and migrated with the caribou herds.

• European settlers/traders were attracted to each site and what it offered.

• Fishing and farming communities were established around waterways.

• Seigneurial System:

• Long narrow lots along the river

• Quebec area

• Township System:

• Square blocks about 100 acres

• Ontario area

Timeline or Sequence Notes

• Good for remembering a series

• of events

Key Word or Topic Notes

Double Entry Journal

Cornell Note Taking

Good Note-taking Habits

• Label! Label, Label!

• Loads of Tools!

• Color! Color! Color!

• Picture this!

• Keep it together!

• Review! Reread! Revisit!

Label! Label, Label!

• Encourage students to put their

• name, date, and topic on every note.

• Promote writing on one side of

• paper and number each page.

• Suggest including teacher’s name and

• subject, if it helps them remember better.

Loads of Tools!

• Have lots of lined and plain paper, notebooks, pencils, pens, cards, stickies- whatever works best.

• Keep all supplies in a central, well organized area.

• Give students choice in the materials they use

• Require a new sheet of paper for each note-taking activity.

Picture this!

• Encourage your students to:

• Draw pictures to help them understand.

• Use symbols or icons along the side of their page.

• Underline, capitalize, indent.

• Draw boxes, circles, arrows to highlight important points.

• Get the big picture first – then fill in the details.

Color! Color! Color!

• Help your students make their notes come alive.

• -Use highlighters, colored pencils,

• markers to help important details

• jump off the page.

• -Use color to help sort and organize

• similar details, to compare and

• contrast, and emphasize important

• points.

• -Use colored paper to differentiate

• between themes, subjects, and

• headings.

Keep it together!

• Offer support with organizing their notes

• -Allow time to sort through binders and

• folders

• -Encourage page protectors and tab

• labels to categorize notes

• - Provide checklists to keep them focused

• -Treasure how hard your students have

• worked

Review, Reread, Revisit

• Encourage your students to:

• -Review what they have written to see if it

• makes sense.

• -Reread their notes (out loud) to see if they have a

• better understanding of what they are

• learning.

• -Revisit their notes regularly to reinforce

• their learning.

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