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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students take notes from oral readings and lectures to create a summary of the material. They use different sizes of post-it notes to complete the activity. They practice pulling the main ideas out of the given material. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students use PowerPoint to practice taking notes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 12th
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Students discover how to transfer information from highlighted articles to note cards. Providing students with an organized system to collect and record data provide them with a lifelong skill. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students analyze the writing process through the ten lessons of this unit. The expository lessons address topic and detail sentences, paragraph organization and development, note taking, reports and letter writing. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students review the main points of note taking to summarize the content of a formal or informal spoken presentation. They hear a guest speaker speak on a pre arranged topic and take notes during the presentation then they write a summary of the content and prepare 3 questions about the presentation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students create research note cards in a wordprocessing format. They practice inputing and organizing the research information as the teacher models how to determine importance in a sample reading. Then students find their own article to research. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students investigate the importance of note taking. The teacher directs the students to follow four rules of effective note taking. They are: listen closely, take notes in your own words, shorten words and use phrases instead of sentences, and write down the main ideas and important details. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
- Rating
Students practice identifying the main idea and supporting details when reading informational text. They read text related to waterfalls and practice note taking skills to identify critical details. Students use their notes to create a poem comparing themselves to a waterfall. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
- Rating
Students work in groups to gather information from a factual paragraph on the topic of ants. They demonstrate taking notes by selecting 3 or 4 important key words in each sentence and write it on a note card to compile summary information to provide three "notes" from the paragraph. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - Higher Ed
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Students use crayons or markers to explore note-taking skills. Students highlight in color (with crayon or highlighter) words and phrases that relate t their topic of research. They use their "crayon notes" to compose a paragraph to support their topic. Full Review »
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