Focused Note Taking

Focused Note Taking

Five Steps to Success

Multiple Choice

For learning to occur most effectively, learners must...

• look at their notes briefly to be prepared

• revisit their notes multiple times in a variety of ways

• takes notes in the same way every time

• hope for the best

Multiple Choice

When you are taking notes be sure to...

• Write an essential question to guide your note taking

• write down everything you read

Multiple Choice

When you are taking notes...

• There are a variety of ways you can take notes.

• The only way to take notes is in an outline.

Multiple Choice

Focused note-taking should occur

• within 24 hours

• within 36 hours

• within 12 hours

• sometime before the test

Multiple Choice

Focused note-taking works on

• is completed as a class

• is done by the teacher

• taking notes for the first time

• clarifying and organization

Multiple Select

Check all that are correct.

When you are processing your notes, you should revise your notes by

• underlining

• highlighting

• circling

• none of these

Multiple Choice

In Phase 3 of Focused Note-Taking, you should _______ beyond the notes.

• work

• think

• answer

Multiple Choice

Besides taking notes, you should make a ________ to what you already know.

• answer

• activity

• connection

Multiple Choice

When you are connecting to thinking, remember to...

• write down what you already know

• ask questions that you really want the answers to

• ask a friend what to write down

Multiple Choice

Phase 4 of Focused-Note Taking, looks at...

• summarizing and reflecting

• connecting to ideas

• processing notes

• picking a format

Multiple Choice

During Phase 4 of Focused-Note Taking, you should

• think about the notes as a whole

• thing about the notes individually

Multiple Choice

In Phase 5 of Focused-Note Taking, you should

• demonstrate what you've learned

• use your textbook or resource for help

• have more notes than you did at the beginning

Multiple Choice

How many steps are there to Focused-Note Taking?

• 4

• 0

• 2

• 5