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MarilynW
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Posted: June 05 2014 at 8:12am \| IP Logged

I am not sure if this should be here or in the high school section?

I would love to hear how you teach your high schoolers to take notes from their readings and prepare them for their college lectures. My oldest who had been used to written narrations, just developed her own system of taking notes which has served her well in college.

My boy who are rising 10th graders are doing a lot of readings. The only notes they have taken are geared towards their weekly written assignment in each subject. They know how to outline (per IEW) but this does not really work for the amount of reading they are doing. I am wondering about formally teaching them notetaking skills - such as Cornell.

My boys will be listening to the Elizabeth Vandiver's Aeneid lectures early in the fall term - I was thinking they could practice note taking skills for that.

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Posted: June 05 2014 at 8:32am \| IP Logged

We've used lecture series recordings (like Vandiver's) from 9th on as an exercise in listening and note-taking, aiming for main points.

My oldest read (on her way to college, literally, as in, in the car on the road there) a book called, I think, How to Study in College, which had an interesting note-taking system . . . which I now don't remember in detail. I'll have to ask her! Over time she's developed her own system, though. In high school it was "write down everything." Now I think she still takes very thorough notes, particularly for history courses.

One strategy is to have the student formulate questions about the reading -- if you can come up with two or three really good questions, then you've processed the material pretty well.

Random thoughts here . . . this is an area in which I'm constantly evolving.

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This might be it -- but the price is insane. I think my daughter just found a copy of the book in her dad's office; I know we didn't buy it!

Here's an earlier edition, which may be the one we have. Much more reasonable price. Anyway, my daughter really liked this book and found it useful, and I'm reminded that it wouldn't be a bad idea to schedule it for my son sometime in the next two years!

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