Reading Strategies & Effective Note Taking

What is Unpacking Text?

• The process of analyzing a complex text

• The process of taking notes

• The process of highlighting texts

• The process of sending text messages

Select the following that are Characteristics of Effective Readers

• Read ahead or reread for clarification

• Summarize/Paraphrase what you have read

• Skim through the text

• Ask questions while reading

What does the format, Cornell Notes, specifically help you in?

• Helps to give you space for your ideas, thoughts, obserations

• Helps you to brainstorm your ideas into words

• Helps you to use visual symbols to express knowledge and concepts through relationships between them

• Helps you to organize complex text, arguments, etc. into a format useful for reflection and study

True or False: Unpacking text is a strategy that helps you arrive at new understandings and form new questions

• True

• False

True or False: Unpacking Text is a strategy you can use when you're writing.

• True

• False

Three note-taking formats we talked about in the presentation were:

• The Cornell Notes Format

• The Outlining Format

• The Two-and Three-Column Notes Format

• The Boxing Format

• Graphic Organizers Format

True or False: A characteristic of an Effective Reader is that they are aware when the text stops making sense.

• True

• False

Select the correct order of the main points in the Focused Note Taking Process

• Write notes based on your source(s), Select the best format for the notes, and Establish a purpose & objective for note-taking

• Select the best format for the notes, Establish a purpose & objective for note-taking, and Write notes based on your source(s)

• Establish a purpose & objective for note-taking, Select the best format for the notes, and Write notes based on your source(s)

Unpacking text strengthens your higher-level thinking skills such as:

• Negotiating

• Applying

• Evaluating

• Remembering

• Interpreting

True or False: The Graphic Organizers Format gives you space for your ideas, thoughts, observations

• True

• False