Note Taking

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Note Taking

• Doing the work to remember what you read later

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Note-Taking

• Why take notes?
• Activates your brainactive reading
• Info into working memory long term memory
• Good for studying later
• Can use for essays, homework, etc

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Note-Taking

• How do you take notes?
• KWLWhat you know (pre-reading)
• What you want to know (comp.)
• What you learned
• Bulletbrief nuggets of information
• Outlineorganizing ideas how they relate
• Post-itQuestions, Answers, Comments, Summary
• Cornellterm, information, where to find it in
  the book

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KWL

• KWL is great for subjects like history and
  science where ideas can build off each other
• Gets your brain ready to take in information and
  learn

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Bulleted Notes

• Bulleted notes are like a listthere is no order
  of importance/ relation to the ideas
• Great for lecture notes

• Subject
• Summary of point
• Comments
• Information
• Vocabulary
• Ideas/Concepts
• New Information
• Related information

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Outline

• Shows main points and relating details
• Great for History
• Helpful as first step in writing essays/ research
  papers

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Post-It Note-Taking

• Great for English texts Lit. books
• Post-its can be put on regular paper or re-copied
  after chapter is read
• Color coded helps some peoplememory trick

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Cornell Notes

• Great for Math, Science, History, and English
  novels
• Concepts are together on page
• Great for vocabulary

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What do you need for all?

• For all of these formats, the ability to
  summarize something is important.
• Summarizing means to take a lot of information
  and write it down using only the essential bits
  that keep the same meaning as the original.