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Using Modal Verbs 3-- Planning a Surprise Party
In this language arts activity, students practice the use of modal verbs "might, could, should, must, can, will" by planning a surprise birthday party. Students make notes in the boxes of all the things that must be done.
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Defining Relative Clauses
For this language arts worksheet, students examine 9 boxes which contain subjects which students respond to. Example: a person who you get on well with; something which you often lose. Students choose 4 subjects, write brief notes in the...
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Note Taking
Second graders 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...
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Waterfalls
Third graders 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...
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Listening To A Guest Speaker
Students participate in a lesson of listening to a guest speaker. They pay attention to the information and are active in taking notes, generating follow up questions, and summarizing the presentation. Students practice clear speaking...
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A Vocabulary Word a Day
Students research one assigned vocabulary word and prepare a short teaching activity and memory aid to present with the word to the class. They take notes on all the new vocabulary words presented to them by other classmates then they...
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The Long and Short of It: Summarizing Important Details
Students practice their summarizing skills while listening to a brief biography of Amelia Earhart. Students take notes while the teacher reads the article and write a paragraph that summarizes the important events from Amelia Earhart's...
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Summary, Note Taking, Main Idea and Details
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.
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Early Explorers Project
Students choose an explorer from a given list, create an original song or poem based on the life of their explorer, make puppets to represent their explorer and then present their original piece to the class while students take notes on...
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Using Pictures in the Classroom
Students review vocabulary by answering questions about an image, drawing the picture and taking notes. They compare their pictures and describe the differences.
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The "Write" Stuff: Third Grade Strategies and Conventions
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.
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Note Taking
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.
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They Live in Guinea
Students watch a video about Guinea, take notes, and discuss the video in large and small groups.
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Notes on the Seasons
Students complete guided notes while learning about the earth's seasons.
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How to Take Notes
Pupils practice taking notes while reading their textbooks. For this note taking lesson, students read a text and use the given procedure to take notes for the text.
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Taking Notes from Written Documents
For this notetaking skills worksheet, students discuss the main events and opinions of a document, as well as listing three things the document tells about life at the time it was written.
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The Witch of Goingsnake
Students listen to The Ballad of Ira Hayes and write paragraphs about his character. In this The Witch of Goingsnake lesson, students read the verses and chorus of the ballad aloud and make notes about Ira Hayes. Students write a...
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Note-Taking to Summary Writing
In this note-taking worksheet, students review an example of notes for a paragraph and then the summary for those notes. Students then read a new passage, take notes over the passage, and then write a summary for the passage.
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Notetaking Worksheet
In this notetaking activity, students practice the skill of notetaking by listening to the speaker, writing down key words and ideas. Then students reflect on their notes.
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Reading Quest
In this reading quest worksheet, students complete this graphic organizer by generating questions, providing text explanations, and categorizing their responses after reading a chapter in social studies.
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Cornell Notes
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the introduction of The Cornell Notetaking System and the emphasis is upon the active learning that is involved. They discuss and demonstrate the six steps of taking Cornell Notes.
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Fluoride in Durango's Water-Helpful or Harmful?
Third graders complete several activities in their quest to find out about the addition of fluoride to city water. First, they create a guide sheet to help organize notes. The next two steps involve taking notes through guided practice....
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Notetaking Skills
Fifth graders review notetaking skills and brainstorm a list of times when notetaking is important. They review a given text then take notes on writing paper, using the modeled style.
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Making the Grade: College Level Study Skills
Students discuss their most difficult college text. They take a questionnaire that analyzes their note taking styles and skills and then identify the appropriate way to study for a college level exam.