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Note-Taking

ABE NRS 4-5

Lesson Objectives:

  • Use academic and comain specific words appropriately when determining the central ideas of the text and transcribing onto notes
  • Clearly understand the text by taking notes using a graphic organizer or outline to summarize what was read and choose language that expresses understanding of the text
  • Listen to a lecture about a chapter that they read prior to class and draw conclusions, determine relevancy, build on ideass presented in the chapter, and add to their notes taken prior to the lecture
  • Determine which note-taking style works best for them based on the 5 different methods, which include sentence, mind mapping, Cornell method, and charting

Keywords: note-taking, Cornell Method, lecture, outline, explore 

Lesson Plan