Reading and Rereading for Understanding with note-Taking Guide Chart

Reading and Rereading for Understanding with  Note-Taking Guide Chart

Organizing Topic  Comprehending Informational Text
Related Standard(s) of Learning

Objective(s)
·  The student will read and reread informational text.
·  The student will take notes.
·  The student will paraphrase.
·  The student will summarize.

Materials needed
·  Informational text with subheadings
·  Read-and-Reread Note-Taking  Guide Chart (see next page)

Lesson procedure
1.  Choose and distribute a challenging informational text with subheadings. Distribute the chart.
2.  Have students read and consider the title and write it on the guide. Have them also write the
author’s name on the guide and activate any prior knowledge about him/her by means of a
whole -class or small-group discussion. Have students identify the source of the text, write it
on the guide, and activate any prior knowledge about its bias by means of a whole -class or
small-group discussion. Have them note the bias, if any, on the chart
3.  Have the students read the opening and closing paragraphs aloud. Have them paraphrase
these two paragraphs on their guides.
4.  Ask the students to skim the article for boldface type, italics, and subheadings and write these
on the guide in the order they appear in the text. Clarify any unfamiliar vocabulary during the
second reading, and have students write needed clarifications on their guides.
5.  Have students skim the article by reading the topic sentence in each paragraph. Explain that
usually the topic sentence comes first in the paragraph, but occasionally one needs to read
carefully to find it. Have students record the topic sentence on their guides. This step might
be accomplished with partners or individually.
6.  Pause to discuss what has been learned thus far.
7.  Have students read the entire article, writing any important information not already included
on their guide.
8.  Finally, have students summarize the article.