Title: Active Learning and Note Taking Guide: American LiteratureAuthor(s): Douglas Fisher, Ph.D.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date: 2006
Pages: 289
Size: 2.95 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English
The Active Learning and Note Taking Guide helps you develop skills for reading informational text—skills such as identifying main ideas, previewing, sequencing, and recognizing organizational patterns in text. Informational text is nonfiction. It presents facts, explanations, and opinions, and is often accompanied by charts, diagrams, and other graphics that make information easier to grasp. Among the types of interesting and challenging texts in this Guide, you’ll find: [+/-]
• Biographical sketches
• Memoirs
• Literary history
• Criticism
• Surveys
• Award-winning nonfiction book excerpts
• Primary source documents
• High-interest articles from TIME magazine
The Active Learning and Note Taking Guide helps you study the background articles found in the Unit and Part Introductions of your textbook, Glencoe Literature: The Reader’s Choice. The Guide includes two types of lessons:
• Note Taking on Informational Text Lessons present a tried-andtrue method of note taking—called The Cornell Note Taking System—along with prompts to help you preview, record, reduce, and summarize the introductory articles in your textbook. Using the book will help you learn this valuable note-taking method, so you can make your own Cornell notes whenever you study.
• Active Reading of Informational Text Lessons are lessons based on the Perspectives and TIME magazine articles in your anthology. In this part of the book, you’ll practice identifying important passages, writing paragraphs, and completing graphic organizers—all tools that expert readers use to help them comprehend informational texts.
Note to Parents and Guardians: Ask your students to show you their work periodically, and explain how it helps them study. You might want to talk to them about how the skills they are learning cross over to other subjects.
• Biographical sketches
• Memoirs
• Literary history
• Criticism
• Surveys
• Award-winning nonfiction book excerpts
• Primary source documents
• High-interest articles from TIME magazine
The Active Learning and Note Taking Guide helps you study the background articles found in the Unit and Part Introductions of your textbook, Glencoe Literature: The Reader’s Choice. The Guide includes two types of lessons:
• Note Taking on Informational Text Lessons present a tried-andtrue method of note taking—called The Cornell Note Taking System—along with prompts to help you preview, record, reduce, and summarize the introductory articles in your textbook. Using the book will help you learn this valuable note-taking method, so you can make your own Cornell notes whenever you study.
• Active Reading of Informational Text Lessons are lessons based on the Perspectives and TIME magazine articles in your anthology. In this part of the book, you’ll practice identifying important passages, writing paragraphs, and completing graphic organizers—all tools that expert readers use to help them comprehend informational texts.
Note to Parents and Guardians: Ask your students to show you their work periodically, and explain how it helps them study. You might want to talk to them about how the skills they are learning cross over to other subjects.
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