AVID’s mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society.

WICOR
• Writing
• Inquiry
• Collaboration
• Organization
• Reading
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Writing
• Learning Logs
• Cornell Notes
• Draft
• Revise
• Final Draft
• Edit
• Journals
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Inquiry
• Skilled Questioning
• Socratic Seminars
• Quickwrite/Discussion
• Critical Thinking Activities
• Writing Questions
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Collaboration
• Group Projects
• Study Groups
• Jigsaw Activities
• Research
• Response/Edit/Revision Groups
• Collaborative Activities
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Reading
• SQ5R (Survey, Question, Read,
Record, Recite, Review, and Reflect)
• KWL (What I know, What I want to learn, and What I learned)
• Reciprocal Teaching
• “Think – Aloud”
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Quick Write Questions
• How did you learn the skill of note taking?
• How did this skill contribute to your success?
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C-Note Paper Samples
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Let’s Practice…
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Heading… in the past?
Learning to
Take Cornell Notes
Name
AVID/ FYS
How is taking Cornell Notes different from how I have taken Notes
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During the Lecture
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During the Lecture
 Listen & take notes in your own words
 Paraphrase what you hear
 Skip lines between ideas
 Abbreviate
 Use symbols
 Write in phrases
 Use bullets/lists
 Recognize cues
 Use outline style, diagrams, pictures, graphs
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Review and Revise Notes
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Note Key Ideas
• Identify first “chunk” or “big idea” of the notes and number 1
• Write a question about the main idea of that
“chunk”
• Repeat until all “chunks” are identified with corresponding questions
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Link to Learning
Summary
• Review notes
• Synthesize and combine main ideas
• Address the essential question
• Link the answers from the questions on the left
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Using your notes to Study
Cover the notes on the right
Rework/Answer questions on the left
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Learning Tool
• Review notes, questions and summary in study groups
• Make meaning of notes and form connections in longterm memory
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Topic
Essential Question
Questions,
Subtitles,
Headings,
Etc.
First & Last Name
Class Title
Period
Date
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1/2”
3 to 4 sentence summary across the bottom of the last page of the day’s notes
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Tonight’s homework
Take Cornell Notes in at least 2 academic classes
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