Layering Notes Check-In

True or False:Layering is similar to Repping Your Notes

• True

• False

How many layers of notes are there?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 3

Rephrase a confusing concept in your own words.

• Clarifications

• Additions

• Main Ideas

• Making Connections

Record vocabulary, ideas, or concepts you missed the first time or have learned since you wrote the notes.

• Classifications

• Main idea

• Concepts and Examples

• Addition

When you review concepts and add specific examples to notes.

• Main Idea

• Concepts and Examples:

• Addition

• Layering

circle, underline, or highlight main ideas in the notes, or write main idea key words in the notes or margins.

• Chunking

• Classifying

• Main Idea

• Making Connections

How many ways can you make connections when layering notes?

• 4

• 6

• 3

• 5

Developing questions from the notes and adding them to the notes. Using Costa’s Levels 2 and 3 for higher-level inquiry.

• Addition

• Concepts and Examples

• Making Connections

• Wondering and Questioning

Revisiting your notes and thinking about ways you can connect and apply your learning.

• Making Connections:

• Layering

• Main Idea

• Classifying

True or False: If relevant for the note-taking purpose,  you don't turn the headings and section titles into questions that are answered by the notes.

• True

• False