Note-Taking Lesson/Templates/Graphic Organizers, High School Study Skills Lesson

Wondering where to start when it comes to teaching note-taking skills, especially "focused note-taking"? Here's everything you need to teach your students how to take notes -- all in one comprehensive, no-prep Google Slides lesson!

You can also use these slides to provide professional development in-servicing to introduce your colleagues to focused note-taking!

⭐️ These slides are perfect for improving your students' study skills, active/critical reading skills, and reading comprehension! Through direct instruction, they'll learn:

1. The research on memory and note-taking
2. Different note-taking formats (including outlining, Cornell Notes, Thinking Maps, webs, two- and three-column notes, and Sketchnotes)
3. The five phases of note-taking (i.e., tips on how to take notes), popularized by the AVID program

⭐️ BONUS: 10 note-taking templates/graphic organizers and a focused note-taking rubric that can be used as a scoring guide to check your students' notes!

The links to the note-taking templates are at the end of the presentation.

⭐️ WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE:

✔️ Saves you precious planning time!

✔️ Teaches essential skills for academic success and college readiness!

✔️ Visually appealing slides that follow a structured format using the 5E model!

✔️ Includes a lesson plan with extra tips & ideas!

⭐️ WHAT'S INCLUDED (a full 5E lesson that takes students through the entire learning cycle in one slide deck!):

• Engage: Questions to hook students at the beginning of the presentation.
• Explore: Interactive Bubble Map about the benefits of note-taking for students to complete to activate their prior knowledge and interactive slide giving students the chance to ask questions before getting into the lesson.
• Explain: A comprehensive overview of focused note-taking, including:
  ➡️ Research about note-taking
  ➡️ Different note-taking formats, and
  ➡️ The five phases of note-taking.
• Elaborate/Extend: Editable discussion questions at the end of the presentation AND two editable extension activities asking students to watch a video and read an article and practice taking notes (There is a link to a TED Talk video you can have students watch and a link to an article you can have students read, OR you can replace these links with your own video and reading material depending on what you teach; I highly suggest adding your own materials relevant to your class goals!). Again, 10 note-taking digital and printable templates are included!
• Evaluate: Reflection questions at the end of the presentation AND a rubric/scoring guide that can be used for assessing notes (the score areas are editable).

• Extra: Great ideas for engaging students and extending the lesson!

• A link is included on the PDF directions download with blank slides matching the presentation theme that you can copy and add to include anything else you would like to add to the presentation.

⭐️ Click "Preview" above to check out these eye-catching slides!

⭐️ 10 Bonus Digital and Printable Templates Included:

Cornell Notes

Two-Column Notes

Three-Column Notes

Tree Map

Bubble Map

Double Bubble Map

Multi-Flow Map

Vertical Flow Map

Circular Flow Map

Venn Diagram

⭐️ All templates are in Google Slides and on PDF except there is one Cornell Notes template in both Google Slides and Google Docs.

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Note: This product comes as Google Slides but you can download the slides to PowerPoint.

⭐️ This lesson can be used in any class, but it's perfect for a college-readiness class, such as an AVID, Advisory, or study skills class, OR a language arts, reading workshop, or English as a second language class.

⭐️ You don't have to do this complete lesson in one class! Feel free to break it up over several days depending on the level of your students.

⭐️ This presentation can be used with face-to-face instruction, distance learning, OR a hybrid approach in any secondary class.

⭐️ It's great to use with either students or faculty!

⭐️ This product is a COMPLETE LESSON in one place (similar to a Hyperdoc, which takes students through the learning cycle in one doc or slide deck using hyperlinks and other media). Perfect for using as a differentiated, self-paced, student-centered lesson, and/or whole class presentation!

⭐️ The time it takes for the entire lesson will vary depending on how much time you allow for group discussions, follow-up class sharing, and extension activities. You could spend as little as 45 minutes on this lesson if it is just for review, or you could take one to three whole classes if you include some of your own note-taking examples and some of the suggested extension activities.

⭐️ This lesson has it all:

• Explicit instruction: This lesson is direct and systematically chunked following a 5E lesson plan and guides students with a clear purpose/essential question, explanation, and supported practice/extension.
• 21st century skills: Students use media and technology literacy skills with this interactive Google Slides presentation and use critical thinking, collaboration, and communication with all the opportunities for discussion.
• Multi-modalities and hands-on learning: Students view and/or listen to the presentation, write and talk about their learning in “think-write-pair-shares” and discussion groups, and possibly more depending on what you assign in the extension, such as producing an essay or video to demonstrate understanding and synthesizing ideas.
• Differentiation: Depending on students’ levels, you could present to the class as a whole and/or assign students to view the slides independently or in small groups and answer the questions as you see fit.
• Scaffolding: This complete lesson comes in manageable parts, from activating prior knowledge to reflection and assessment, and can be teacher- or student-paced.
• Higher levels of questioning: The discussion questions require higher-level thinking such as analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
• Real-life connection: The college and career-readiness topic and essential question are meaningful and relevant to students’ futures.
• Student choice: To add student choice, give students options of strategies, tools, and/or extension activities.

⭐️ Note: You can skip or delete any of the slides you don't want to use and add your own notes to any of the slides.

⭐️ Read more about focused note-taking on my blog HERE!

⭐️⭐️⭐️ I highly recommend also getting Costa's Three Levels of Questioning, Active Reading Comprehension Strategies, and Marking the Text to help students develop critical reading skills. These three resources are also included in my discounted Critical Reading Bundle.

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