Listening/Notetaking Strategies

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Listening/Notetaking Strategies

• By Karen Phillips

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L.O. Students will practice listening and note
taking strategies.
Be Prepared!

• Sit up and face the speaker!!
• Clear your mind and focus on the speaker.
• Watch/listen/be ready for when speaker begins!

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Notetaking

• Create acronyms for repeated names and phrases
• Examples
• Notetaking (NT)
• Chris Rock(CR)
• Statue of Liberty(SOL)

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Notetaking
Write out in full

• Frst X u hear names of peple, plces, impt
  events

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Sample Abbreviations
Sample Abbreviations

• because bec
• before b4
• with w/
• without w/o
• and, also
• is

• Why y
• America Amer
• individual indiv
• history hist
• number
• liberal lib

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Your Abbreviations
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Listening

• Notice pauses that indicate something important.
• Notice speakers emphasis on certain words,
  phrases, or sentences.
• Notice body gestures that emphasize what speaker
  is saying.

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Listening
Listening

• Activate prior knowledge. Relate what you hear
  to what you already know and your own life.
• Visualize what you are hearing.
• Listen for a purpose - to understand what the
  storys about.

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Notetaking
Notetaking

• Dont write in full sentences.
• Leave out unimportant words such as the, a
• Skip lines between major ideas to indicate a
  change of ideas and to make re-reading easier.

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Notetaking
Notetaking

• To show importance, use
• bullets, stars, ?arrows, underlining
• When speaker indicates importance through voice
  or body emphasis, use these symbols.

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Notetaking
Notetaking

• Use abbreviations. Create your own. You can use
  IMing abbreviations, but be sure to only use them
  while notetaking, not for homework, projects, or
  other papers.
• Omit vowels, for example people
  pepl background bckgrnd

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Notetaking
Notetaking
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• Dont write in full sentences
• 2pac-rapper shot-died 9/14/96.
• Omit or shorten endings
• democratic dem
• geography geog
• documentdoc
• fighting fightng

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Notetaking
Notetaking

• Listen for purpose.
• Be sure to get down on paper
• who names of people w/identifying words King,
  musician, student, athlete
• what impt events, challenges, problems,
  possible solutions, resolution of problem how
  things worked out.

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Notetaking
Notetaking

• when dates years, months, centuries, seasons,
  time. April 4, 1960 4/4/1960 winter 9 a.m.
• where names of places cities, states,
  countries, regions. Abbreviate, e.g. Gettysburg
  Gtysbrg if Gtysbrg repeted, use G
• why Causes

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Suggested Notetaking Format
Suggested Notetaking Format

• Bullet each note.
• Leave space between each bullet.
• If you think youve missed something important,
  write a line, so on the 2nd reading youll know
  to fill in info.
• Sandy alwys wntd 2 be - /
• During 2nd reading, fill in what you missed in
  the spaces between the lines and in underline
  signals you left for yourself.

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Credits
MUSIC CREDITS

• Guetto Skills. Gabriells S. Uno,, The Lost Mix
  Tape, Vol. 1. Hip Hop Worldwide Collaboration.
• Larson, Jonathan. Seasons of Love. Rent.
  Original Broadway Cast Recording. 1999.