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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Paraphrasing While Listening and Taking Notes

For Students 10th - 12th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn to paraphrase a speaker's remarks in the process of your note taking.
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Taking Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides essential and additional information concerning note-taking skills, in settings such as lectures, discussions, and research papers.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking: Symbols and Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson focuses on creating a system of note taking symbols and abbreviations that work for the individual. It explains the purposes of note taking and of using symbols and abbreviations; offers quick tips for abbreviating...
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Other

College of St. Benedict: Lecture Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on taking notes during lectures and gives signal words to listen for during the lecture.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on note taking techniques, such as Cornell notes, note cards, graphic organizers, highlighting, etc. It discusses reasons for note taking, techniques, how to take notes, and what to do with notes. It offers this...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Book Reports: Reading and Taking Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson discusses reading and taking notes in preparation for a book report.
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Curated OER

Biz/ed: Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
This webiste from Biz/ed discusses taking notes in class and taking notes from written sources. It lists some tips on how to improve your technique on taking notes in class, and lists five different methods and the...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking: Word Selection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson [8:35] explaining how to determine which information is necessary and relevant when taking notes.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Learning How to Listen and Take Effective Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to listen effectively, take good notes, and ask critical questions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking: Concept Maps and Flow Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on note taking using concept maps and flow charts; it provides background information, 6 types of concept maps or flow charts with best uses, uses in the classroom, uses while reading or researching, and how...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: How to Take Research Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on how to take research notes using two slideshows. The first presentation compares taking research notes to class notes and offers 3 methods of note taking that would work for either: Cornell notes, index cards,...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Teen Brain Takes Biggest Sports Hits" by Katherine Harmon

For Students 6th - 8th
In this informational text, Katherine Harmon discusses the effects that head injuries can have on the teenage brain. As you read, take notes on what happens to an athlete as a result of a head injury and the additional effect it can have...
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Other

Oregon School Library Information System

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An excellent site that supports school libraries which includes tools for both elementary and secondary students. Choose the appropriate level to find resources on citing sources, research process, choosing research resources, finding...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A five-slide presentation explaining techniques writers can use to take effective notes while gathering information for a research project. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Note Writing in the Primary Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson provides a wealth of ideas for using notes in the classroom to promote authentic writing among children.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking Strategies

For Students 11th - 12th
Note taking involves recording ideas and facts that you learn in class to help you remember and use them later. It is important because you become active in the learning process. Good notes create a complete history of the course content...
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making Note Cards

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A useful site that gives information on how to make note cards when writing a research report or project. Provides examples and tips.
Interactive
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Notetaker Interactive Tool

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent interactive site which allows students to take notes as well as organize, plan, and revise their writing, as well as assist with reading skills. Provides several options for student creativity and improvement concerning...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Learning Skills for Interview and Group Discussion Communications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the skills needed for interviews and group discussions including taking notes, exploring a topic, and staying on topic. It also provides a link to a model interview. SL.11-12.6 Speaking tasks
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Changing America" by Barbara Radner

For Students 4th - 6th
This is an informational article about how Martin Luther King Jr. worked toward changing America in the 1950s and 1960s. It includes a short bio of Dr. King and a reading purpose: As you read, take notes on the problems that African...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Power Notes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A printable note-taking format where students create an outline by assigning powers to the main idea and supporting details. Directions on how to use this type of rubric as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Power Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: The Research Process: Notetaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on taking notes for your research project. It explains what to included in your notes and how to write them. It offers a link to The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines" and Study Guides and...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Note Taking for Social Studies

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers how to read a historical text and convert information into visual representations by taking notes. This strategy helps students to read a passage and determine the author's purpose.

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