
250: Reair 47 – Note Taking
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How to Skim and Scoop a History Book
The next strategy is called skim and scoop. We learned this strategy at a conference and I think it's fantastic. If you see a word that repeats more than two or three times You're going to know what that paragraph is about. Another quick strategy is Highlighting the main idea in one color and highlighting details in another color. Using social media language texting language. How would you caption this? What would the tweet be? And it forces students to Get to the nugget get to the kernel of truthGet to the kernels of what's most important Faster when you give them permission to caption this paragraph, for example.
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