How To Take Notes

Worksheet Description

This Study Skills worksheet, titled “How to Take Notes,” serves as a practical guide for students to enhance their note-taking abilities, which are crucial for academic success. The worksheet begins by emphasizing the importance of note-taking as a means to effectively remember and organize information from lectures or readings. It explains that jotting down key points helps students retain the material they have encountered, making it an essential skill for capturing the essence of what is heard or read.

The worksheet offers a clear and concise list of strategies to improve note-taking, each accompanied by a checkbox. These strategies include copying what the teacher writes on the board, paraphrasing spoken information, making ample use of space for comprehensive notes, reviewing notes daily, developing personal abbreviations for efficiency, noting repetitions for emphasis, paying attention to verbal cues that signal importance, highlighting critical information, noting down examples provided by the teacher, and rewriting or typing notes after class for better retention.

At the bottom, there is a reminder for students to prioritize trying out any strategies they currently do not use, to continuously improve their note-taking skills in the coming week.