ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments
Contains plans for a lesson on taking notes that is part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like figuring out what information is relevant and irrelevant, using a variety of sources, and paraphrasing. In...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking Strategies
Note taking involves recording ideas and facts that you learn in class to help you remember and use them later. It is important because you become active in the learning process. Good notes create a complete history of the course content...
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Mind Maps: A Powerful Approach to Note Taking
An excellent resource for learning about the organizational concepts of the Mind Map. The site includes definition, uses, and examples. This technique would work especially well for visual learners.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Reading to Write
Since students often need to write about what they read, this site offers strategies to use while reading that will make the writing much easier. These include not only reading strategies but note-taking and planning strategies as well.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking Techniques
A five-slide presentation explaining techniques writers can use to take effective notes while gathering information for a research project. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking: Word Selection
A screencast lesson [8:35] explaining how to determine which information is necessary and relevant when taking notes.
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making Source Cards
A great resource for putting together all of a student's possible sources onto note cards for later using in citing.
Other
How to Study: Taking Notes in Class
In order to take notes effectively, an easy to follow system is suggested at this site. This page is geared towards students of all ages.
Other
The Add Center: Notetaking Strategy Two Column Format
This excerpt details the ways in which students with attention deficit disorder may benefit from the notetaking process called the "two column method." Provides information and a sample of this method.
Curated OER
Biz/ed: Note Taking
This webiste from Biz/ed discusses taking notes in class and taking notes from written sources. It lists some tips on how to improve your technique on taking notes in class, and lists five different methods and the...
Read Works
Read Works: Organizing Information Into an Outline
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students will take notes as they read Animal Homes by Ann O. Squire. This information will then be organized into an outline. Includes printable materials for teacher and students.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Summary, Note Taking, Main Idea & Details
A to Z Teacher Stuff offers a lesson, submitted by a teacher, using different sized post-it notes to discuss summarizing, note taking, main idea, and details. RI.11-12.2 Central IdeaS/Anal/Summ
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
Students practice annotating and analyzing paired passages.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.8: Recall Information From Experiences or Gather Information
Links to 75 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources, take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
In this lesson, you will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. Prepare to get involved in a conversation between you and the two texts you will be...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading Comprehension Across Genres: Annotate for Meaning
This lesson focuses on Annotation, a "writing-to-learn" strategy. It consists of writing explanatory notes and critical (analytical) commentary to yourself. Annotating text consists of two steps: (1) underlining, highlighting, circling,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
In this lesson, you will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. You are going to look at two texts together to better understand them.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate for Meaning (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on annotation including the tools and techniques for marking texts, annotating for meaning in a story, and adding marginal notations to your marked text.
Other
Lexiconic Resources: 5 W's and How Chart
This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Notetaker Interactive Tool
An excellent interactive site which allows students to take notes as well as organize, plan, and revise their writing, as well as assist with reading skills. Provides several options for student creativity and improvement concerning...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Structured Notetaking
Structured Notetaking is a strategy that helps students become more effective note takers. Using graphic organizers specific to a particular text, structured notes assist students in understanding the content of their reading.
University of South Florida
Two Column Notes for Cause and Effect
Written primarily for students in grade 4, this site details how to create a two-column notetaking format. Provides a brief summary and a bibliographic reference.
Other
Just Read Now: Two Column Notes
A helpful resource which includes the uses, steps, and links for further information about the two-column note strategy.
Keene College
Keene State College: No Nonsense Note Taking
This site from Keene State College contains information on the No Nonsense Note-taking Method. Which explains how to take notes correctly and efficiently.