FCMS English 7 2025 Taking notes efficiently and effectively

Open Ended

In your own words, explain how highlighting can help you review and remember information more effectively.

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to highlight only a small portion (10%-25%) of the text when taking notes?

• It helps you focus on the most important information and think critically.

• It makes your notes look colorful and attractive.

• It allows you to highlight everything so you don't miss anything.

• It saves time because you don't have to read the whole text.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following should you highlight when reading an article?

• Only the titles and subtitles

• Only the images and captions

• Any text features such as titles, subtitles, bold and italic words, images, captions, graphs, and charts

• Only the graphs and charts

Fill in the Blanks

Highlighting important information from the text and sketching the picture in your mind in the margins helps you to

the content better.

Multiple Choice

After highlighting and sketching, what is the next step according to the QAR strategy?

• Write a summary of the article

• Create questions about what you highlighted

• Draw more pictures

• Read the article again

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of using QAR question stems when reading an article?

• To memorize the article

• To help better understand what you're reading in the article.

• To highlight only the main idea

• To summarize the text

Multiple Choice

When checking your work after highlighting, what should you do if your highlighted text does not form a summary that makes sense?

• Ignore it and move on

• Revisit your text and add to your highlighting

• Erase all highlights and start over

• Ask someone else to highlight for you

Multiple Choice

Highlighting in your notes should be used to draw attention to important information. According to the lesson, what percentage of the text should you ideally highlight?

• 10%-25%

• 50%-60%

• 75%-80%

• 100%

Open Ended

Reflecting on today's lesson, what is one strategy you learned for taking notes more efficiently and effectively that you would like to try in the future?