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Taking Notes. Microsoft, 2011. 6 th Grade Skills Needed for Post-Secondary Success: Overview. Discussion. Tell me about reading for your classes. How often do you read something for class and get to the end of the page and realize you have no idea what you just read?
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Taking Notes Microsoft, 2011 6th Grade Skills Needed for Post-Secondary Success: Overview
Discussion • Tell me about reading for your classes. • How often do you read something for class and get to the end of the page and realize you have no idea what you just read? • What strategies do you know to help you read smarter? • Tell me about taking notes in your classes. • How many of you look back at your notes after you take them? • How do you use your notes to study? • What note-taking techniques do you know?
Objective • The purpose of today's lesson is to help you read smarter and to help you take worthwhile notes Microsoft, 2011
Pre-test • What are the steps in SQ3R? • What do you record in the columns for Q-Notes? • How can you use SQ3R or Q-notes in your classes?
Reading Smarter: SQ3R • S = Survey • Q = Question • R = Read • R = Recite • R = Review Microsoft, 2011
SQ3R Practice • Directions: • Read the brief paragraph and complete the SQ3R notes on your own. • Pair up with a partner and discuss what you have written for each part of the SQ3R process.
Survey • First, I’ll look over, or survey, the article. • The headers and table tell me it’s about Oklahoma in the 1930’s, the dust bowl, farmers’ lives, and rainfall. • What else can I learn from a quick survey of the passage?
Question • To help me focus on each section, I’ll turn the headers into questions. • What was Oklahoma like in the 1930’s? • What was the dust bowl? • What was a farmer’s life like in Oklahoma in the 1930’s? • How much rainfall did they have in Oklahoma in the 1930’s? Was this normal? • What other questions did you have written down?
Read • Now I’ll read carefully to find the answers to my questions and record my answers.
Recite • I can recite, or say the most important ideas in each section in my own words. • In Oklahoma in the early 1930’s, a drought caused the soil to dry out and the wind blew the soil everywhere. They called this a dust bowl. Farmers could not farm because there was so little rain. In fact, there was about 4 inches less rain per year than in previous years.
Review • Were all my questions answered? I’ll review to find out. • All of my questions were answered. • Reviewing is an ongoing process, so I can keep these notes to review regularly. • These notes may be helpful for completing an assignment or studying for a quiz or test.
Q-Notes • Q-notes are two-column notes that can be used to study for quizzes and tests. • Divide your paper in half vertically • In the left column you write questions. • In the right column you write notes that answer the questions. • Q-Notes can be taken during class lectures, while reading, or to re-write notes you’ve already taken Questions Notes
Reading: Write Questions 1st Questions Notes
Take Notes as You Read Questions Notes
Lecture: Take Notes 1st Questions Notes
Write Questions Later Questions Notes
Q-Notes Practice • Pair up • Use the passage provided to practice writing Q-notes. • You may use your own paper or the paper provided • Fold the notes in half vertically • Quiz one another
Reflection • Login to Naviance • Complete the “Note-Taking Strategies Reflection”
Update Your Readiness Rubric • Self-Management • I take notes in class and when I read textbooks • Never, Rarely, Often, Never • Developing or Meeting
Post-test • What are the steps in SQ3R? • What do you record in the columns for Q-Notes? • How can you use SQ3R or Q-notes in your classes?
Review • The 5 Steps in SQ3R are: • Survey • Question • Read • Recite • Review • Q-Notes: • Record questions in the left column and notes in the right • How can you use SQ3R or Q-notes in your classes?
References • Burke, J. (2002). Tools for thought. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann • Landsberger, J.F. (1996). SQ3R reading method.Retreived from http://www.studygs.net/texred2.htm • Microsoft Office Images. (2011). Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/