The document discusses different stages and methods of effective note taking. It outlines the beginning, middle, and end stages of note taking, with an emphasis on building knowledge at the beginning and fact checking at the end. It also describes the two-column note taking method, with facts and information in one column and thoughts and questions in the other. The document provides examples of text codes to annotate notes and an example applying two-column notes to a passage about the Super Bowl.

1. NOTE TAKING: 2
COLUMN NOTES
Research
6th & 7th Grade Language

2. Stages of Note Taking
 Beginning
 Building a foundation of knowledge
 Basic info
 Lots of reading!!
 Middle
 After
basic knowledge
 Specific Info
 End
 Fact checking

3. Two-Column Notes
Essential Question: Always begin with a question in mind!!
Notes Thinking
 Facts  Your thoughts
 Information  Your questions
 Statistics  Your realizations
 Stories
 Found directly in
text

4. Text Codes
 Use codes to react to your notes
 Examples:
? = question
 ?? = confusion
 = connection; cause/effect
 = important info

5. Example
 On Sunday, February 5th, the two teams you see here will face
each other in the biggest game of the NFL season, the Super Bowl.
The Giants’ home stadium isn’t in New York; it’s in New Jersey. The
Super Bowl is always given a Roman numeral instead of a
number, and this year it is Super Bowl XLVI.
 This year’s game will be played in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is a
re-match of the 2008 Super Bowl, when these teams faced also
faced each other. The two teams have the same head coaches and
same starting quarterbacks now that they had then. New York’s
coach is Tom Coughlin and New England’s coach is Bill Belichick.
The Patriots have a much better regular season record than the
Giants this year. The Patriots won 13 games and lost 3, while the
Giants won 9 games and lost 7. But none of that matters —
whichever team wins will be the NFL’s champion. Almost as much
attention is paid to the half-time show and the commercials as to the
game itself.

6. Example
How are sports important to American culture?
Notes Thinking
 Super bowl is the  Why don’t Giants
biggest game of NFL
season. play in NY?
 NY Giants play in New  How do they decide
Jersey
 Use roman numerals where it’s played?
 This year it’s in  Wow!
Indianapolis
 Rematch of 2008
 Much attn paid to
commercial