Members of this group

• Ann Holton
• Denise Rehmke
• Nancy Weber
• Karen Franker
• Kristi Harper
• Sarah Latcham
• Susie Corbin-Muir
• Beth Belding

Notes

Chosen note-taking skill: Paraphrasing

Chosen grade level: Junior High

Sub-skills/scaffolding of note-taking skill:

• Summarizing
• Main idea
• Key words

Chosen 1^st time teacher:

Chosen Re-teacher

Points to Ponder:

Best instruction + best management = best results for kids.

Concentrate on quality teaching, not logistics.

Your input is critical regardless of the level of instruction.

Note from Susie: I spoke with Sue Burger who teaches Literacy 7. She does a number of lessons on Non-fiction text features and would be willing to work with us on notetaking skills. I have attached a worksheet she has the kids complete as part of the lessons she does. We'd like to work on notetaking in Dec. because the 7th graders will be starting a research project in science during January and that would help the students be ready to start. She will be starting a unit on child labor. She has a class set of Russel Freeman's Kids at Work as well as a class set of Faces Magazine, the Kids at Work Issue. We could possibly use either of these if you think that would work.

NOtes from 11/13/07

Sara will post notes from this meeting. See Documents section below

Susie met with Sue Burger (Literacy 7 at NCJH). Here's what they discussed.

Sue will do some background in the following ways:

• Nov. 15 Compare F/NF
• Nov. 16 Introduce text structures
• Nov. 19 Introduce text features
• Nov. 20 Scavenger hunt for text features activity
• Nov. 26-30 Summarizing short articles from textbook and from other sources --- introduce concept of chunking
• Dec. 3-4 Background building activities on Child Labor... Do a KWL hoping to get to Current Day concerns: Who does this affect? Where is it happening? What are the working conditions? What are the long-term effects of CL? Why are children being used? What can we do to help? Sue will use the article from FACES called " Children Work Long and Hard in America's Fields" pp. 34-37... They will practice chunking and writing summary statements. "NOTES"
• Dec. 5 period 6 and 8 we will teach the lesson on NOTE Taking that we create. Then we will meet and revise and either teach Thursday Morning or Friday Morning any period 1-4. Sue and I will be doing a different activity with the opposite groups so that we don't get her too far off.

Comments? Thanks, Susie

Sarah will revise the lesson, find the note-taking rules poster to send to Susie, teach the second lesson, and look for fair trade cocoa.

Ann will create a observation sheet.

Each observer will need to bring a clipboard.

Karen will look for fair trade chocolate.

Kristie will print out and copy the observation sheets.

Susie will get a seating arrangement, create the transparencies and teach the first lesson.

Each member should check the new edited Shrinking Notes and see if it needs more editing!

Susie will let us know if we need to bring stickie notes, chocolate or any other gifts since she is teaching and letting us borrow her students!

• Documents

Text Features.doc

Shrinking Notes.rtf

edited shrinking notes.rtf

Shrinking Notes rev.doc

record sheet notetaking.doc

Ebsco articles child labor

• I couldn't get these to load so I am going to email them out. SCM