Note Taking Made Easy!

Taking effective notes is essential for academic success. In this book, award-winning teacher Deana Hippie provides research-based, hands-on activities to help students recognize main ideas and key details in expository texts, so they can effectively record notes on their reading. Her classroom-tested lessons and guided practice activities scaffold learning, so that students develop the independence they need to read and learn from non-fiction texts and classroom lectures. They’ll learn to recognize main ideas, navigate complex passages, analyze information, record notes, write summaries and use notes to review and revise information. Complete with reproducible notes, this resource will show your students how to boost their comprehension of all non-fiction texts, including standardized test passages.