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Study Skills: Note-Taking and Close Reading

Learn Herman Ebbinghaus' Curve of Forgetting, note-taking strategies, and the art of close reading for effective learning and retention. Enhance your study habits to succeed academically and build long-term memory retention.

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Study Skills: Note-Taking and Close Reading

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  1. Study Skills: Note-Taking and Close Reading PTA Presentation ESHS’s AVID Program September 2017

  2. Objectives • The Curve of Forgetting • Note-taking • Close reading

  3. Herman Ebbinghaus The Curve of Forgetting • German psychologist • pioneered experimental study of memory during late 1800s • father of “The Curve of Forgetting” % Retained Amount of study

  4. The Forgetting Curve Based on a one hour lecture: • Day 1: Recall 100% of lecture (short term memory) • Day 2/within 24 hrs: Lose 50 – 80% (As days continue more and more information is lost if not revisited) • Day 30: 2 – 3% is retained

  5. Ebbinghaus’ 10 – 24 – 7 Model 10 minutes: repeat/paraphrase information within 10 minutes in order to transfer to long term memory 24 hours: revisit information for at least 10 minutes within 24 hours of initial lecture 7 days: revisit information 5 minutes a day, for 7 days ALLOWS FOR 80 – 90% RETENTION

  6. Benefits ofAnnotation • Activating information causes retention in long-term memory = easier to retrieve • Excellent time investment; decreases review time before an exam • Crucial skill/habit to learn for college

  7. Note-taking • Students take notes in class and should: • incorporate teacher’s note-taking style according to respective teacher • use abbreviations and phrases, NOT complete sentences • annotate notes at home (or rewrite them) (that day or within a 24-hour period) • write a summary of each day’s notes at the end of class or at home (that day or within a 24-hour period)

  8. Note-taking Why a summary? (Active Learning) • make more sense of the information • Identify gaps • Make larger connections (5 – 10 sentences)

  9. Note-taking Why annotate? • Find gaps in learning • Ask questions • Look for patterns • Make connections • TIP: ALWAYS ANNOTATE WITH A PEN OR PENCIL

  10. Close Reading • Definition • ACTIVE reading (pen/pencil in hand) • Go beyond the literal meaning and words on the page • Read between the lines • Analyze the passage • Purpose • ACTIVE reading (as opposed to passive reading)

  11. Close Reading • What students erroneously assume about reading: • #1: Read entire text • #2: Think about the text after reading • #3: Write about the text

  12. Close Reading How to read “closely” With a pen/pencil in hand, look for: • Language (diction) • Narrative (Who is telling the story?) • Syntax (sentence structure) • Context (historical and author’s background)

  13. Close Reading What does it look like in action? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adXdTXEzmzE

  14. Close Reading • Process is adjusted for various disciplines and/or readings • Basic principals are universal

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