Take Good Notes

1. Take Good Notes Student Leads Skills Needed for Post-Secondary Success

2. Review What are 3 self-management strategies? Which self-management strategy did you try out? How did it work? Will you continue using it? Why or why not?

3. Discussion Tell me about reading for your classes. How often do you read something for class and get to the end of the page and realize you have no idea what you just read? What strategies do you know to help you read smarter? Tell me about taking notes in your classes. How many of you look back at your notes after you take them? How do you use your notes to study? What note-taking techniques do you know?

4. Objective The purpose of today's lesson is to learn two strategies for Tip 5 – Take Good Notes. Remember, in college you have more reading and more lecture, so learning to take good notes is a must!

5. Pre-test What are the steps in SQ3R? What do you record in the columns for Q-Notes? How can you use SQ3R or Q-notes in your classes?

6. Reading Smarter: SQ3R S = Survey Q = Question R = Read R = Recite R = Review Microsoft, 2011

7. SQ3R Practice Directions: Read the brief paragraph and complete the SQ3R notes on your own. Pair up with a partner and discuss what you have written for each part of the SQ3R process.

8. Survey First, I’ll look over, or survey, the article. The headers and table tell me it’s about Oklahoma in the 1930’s, the dust bowl, farmers’ lives, and rainfall. What else can I learn from a quick survey of the passage?

9. Question To help me focus on each section, I’ll turn the headers into questions. What was Oklahoma like in the 1930’s? What was the dust bowl? What was a farmer’s life like in Oklahoma in the 1930’s? How much rainfall did they have in Oklahoma in the 1930’s? Was this normal? What other questions did you have written down?

10. Read Now I’ll read carefully to find the answers to my questions and record my answers.

11. Recite I can recite, or say the most important ideas in each section in my own words. In Oklahoma in the early 1930’s, a drought caused the soil to dry out and the wind blew the soil everywhere. They called this a dust bowl. Farmers could not farm because there was so little rain. In fact, there was about 4 inches less rain per year than in previous years.

12. Review Were all my questions answered? I’ll review to find out. All of my questions were answered. Reviewing is an ongoing process, so I can keep these notes to review regularly. These notes may be helpful for completing an assignment or studying for a quiz or test.

13. Q-Notes Q-notes are two-column notes that can be used to study for quizzes and tests. Divide your paper in half vertically In the left column you write questions. In the right column you write notes that answer the questions. Q-Notes can be taken during class lectures, while reading, or to re-write notes you’ve already taken Questions Notes

14. Reading: Write Questions 1st Questions Notes

15. Take Notes as You Read Questions Notes

16. Lecture: Take Notes 1st Questions Notes

17. Write Questions Later Questions Notes

18. Q-Notes Practice Pair up Use the passage provided to practice writing Q-notes. You may use your own paper or the paper provided Fold the notes in half vertically Quiz one another

19. Reflection Complete the “Note-Taking Strategies Reflection”

20. Post-test What are the steps in SQ3R? What do you record in the columns for Q-Notes? How can you use SQ3R or Q-notes in your classes?

21. Review The 5 Steps in SQ3R are: Survey Question Read Recite Review Q-Notes: Record questions in the left column and notes in the right How can you use SQ3R or Q-notes in your classes?

22. References Burke, J. (2002). Tools for thought. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Landsberger, J.F. (1996). SQ3R reading method. Retreived from http://www.studygs.net/texred2.htm Microsoft Office Images. (2011). Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/