Learning Strategies

Good summarizing means:

• Copying a lot of the text word-for-word.

• Finding the main idea and important details.

• Writing down every single thing from the original.

• Adding your own opinions and changing the meaning.

When you summarize well, you: .

• Include everything, even unimportant stuff.

• Pick out the most important parts.

• Only write down what you think.

• Ignore the main idea of what you read.

Putting things in your own words when you summarize helps you:

• Make your summary longer.

• Show you understand what you read.

• Not have to look at the original text again.

• Confuse anyone who reads your summary.

Summarizing and note-taking are useful for:

• Just schoolwork.

• Just jobs.

• School, work, and everything in life.

• Only writing stories.

Why should you spend time with information before summarizing it?

• To make your summary really long.

• To figure out what's most important.

• So you don't have to read the original.

• To add more of your own opinions.

Taking notes is helpful because it:

• Helps you remember things and pay attention.

• Means you don’t have to study.

• Guarantees you’ll get good grades.

• Means you don’t need textbooks.

A good note-taking strategy is:

• Not listening to the speaker at all.

• Underlining, highlighting, and circling important stuff.

• Writing down every single word.

• Trying to remember everything without writing it down.

The Cornell note-taking method is about:

• Drawing pictures instead of writing.

• Highlighting key information in a special way.

• Only using one color pen.

• Writing down absolutely everything the speaker says.

Which of these isn't a common way to take notes?

• Making an outline

• Drawing a mind map

• Using the Cornell method

• Just scribbling randomly

Taking notes helps students to:

• Daydream in class.

• Pay attention to the lesson.

• Not ask any questions.

• Not have to study later.