Note Taking Doing the work to remember what you read later

Note-Taking Why take notes? Activates your brain—active reading Info into working memory = long term memory Good for studying later Can use for essays, homework, etc

Note-Taking How do you take notes? KWL—What you know (pre-reading) What you want to know (comp.) What you learned Bullet—brief nuggets of information Outline—organizing ideas how they relate Post-it—Questions, Answers, Comments, Summary Cornell—term, information, where to find it in the book

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

Bulleted Notes Bulleted notes are like a list—there 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

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

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 people— memory trick

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

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.