Note-taking strategies
- Using Cornell reading notes while reading
- Suggest students can illustrate while they read as a note-taking strategy
- Choose one literary element to focus on while reading (plot, mood setting etc)
- Acting out scenes especially court scenes
- Offering choices of texts to when annotating
- Re-naming chapters with a name that is meaningful for the student - then using the new chapter name as a springboard for discourse.
- Suggest students create just three point summary
- Use apps or websites such as "Storyboard that" and makebeliefscomix.com for summaries and introductions to novels/chapters_
- Suggest student PowerPoint summaries which can include including text, images and voice notes