Reading notes

Active and purposeful highlighting and annotating is an important skill that can enable greater success in being able to comprehend a text. This post explores three annotations for deeper reading and how to take reading to a deeper level during reader's workshop. This also has a dramatic effect on

Our school buys a binder for each student to use as a Home-School Communication Binder. When I first heard this I thought it would never work. I really thought that most students would lose theirs. I

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I feel like it is no secret that law school requires a ton of reading. It is a huge part of being a lawyer so naturally, it should be a big part of the process of becoming a lawyer. I have always been an avid reader. I was not uncommon for my middle school self to check 20-30 books at a time out from our local library because I would buzz through them so fast. My parents had to take the nightstand light out of my room because I would stay up until the wee hours of the morning reading. When…

Staring at a textbook, but you don't know how to attack it? Find out how to take killer notes from any textbook that can be used for studying!

Here's the best note taking tips for those who struggle with taking notes in class! It's hard to write down what you'll remember, but these tips will help!

Find everything that you need to know about taking notes in college! Learn how to take pretty and organized notes with great handwriting; in notebooks or on a laptop. Here, you can find templates for taking notes in college. Utilize these ideas to take notes for studying, biology, math, medial classes, and much more!! Learn how to use different note taking methods to take notes for classes, lectures, labs, and tests. What materials do you need? What should you write down? Click to read more!

I'm a stickler about annotations. For years, I heard students lament, 'Tucker, I never remember what I read' or 'I just don't understand what is happening in this book.' In response, I began to teach students the art of annotating.

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Asking questions before, during, and after reading comes very naturally to skilled readers, but for struggling readers, this skill can be just the opposite. Asking questions of varying depths is arguably the most important reading