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Listening/Notetaking Strategies

Listening/Notetaking Strategies. By Karen Phillips. Be Prepared!. L.O. Students will practice listening and note taking strategies. Sit up and face the speaker!! Clear your mind and focus on the speaker. Watch/listen/be ready for when speaker begins!. Notetaking.

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Listening/Notetaking Strategies

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  1. Listening/Notetaking Strategies By Karen Phillips

  2. Be Prepared! L.O. Students will practice listening and note taking strategies. Sit up and face the speaker!! Clear your mind and focus on the speaker. Watch/listen/be ready for when speaker begins!

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

  4. Notetaking Write out in full • Frst X u hear names of peple, plces, + impt events

  5. Sample Abbreviations Sample Abbreviations Why y America Amer individual indiv history hist number # liberal lib because bec before b4 with w/ without w/o and, also + is = a

  6. Your Abbreviations .

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

  8. 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 story’s about. Listening

  9. Notetaking Notetaking • Don’t 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. s

  10. Notetaking Notetaking To show importance, use bullets, *stars, ►arrows, underlining **When speaker indicates importance through voice or body emphasis, use these symbols.

  11. 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 .

  12. Notetaking . . Notetaking Don’t write in full sentences: 2pac-rapper shot-died 9/14/96. Omit or shorten endings: democratic = dem geography = geog document=doc fighting = fightng

  13. 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.

  14. 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 .

  15. Suggested Notetaking Format Suggested Notetaking Format • Bullet each note. • Leave space between each bullet. • If you think you’ve missed something important, write a line, so on the 2nd reading you’ll 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.

  16. MUSIC CREDITS 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.

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