I collaborate with the 2nd grade teachers on this project in various ways. I pull books appropriate for the reading levels of the students. This year, the teachers asked if I would help with note taking skills and citing sources.
I tried and tried to find a note taking organizer that would help the students, but I could not find one I liked. So, I made my own. 😊 You are welcome to use it however you'd like.
I wanted to model note taking to the students, so we researched Barbara Park together. Junie B. Jones is a very popular series in 2nd grade right now, so they were all excited to learn more about the author. We started with Pebble Go. I had the students read the page, and as a table group, come up with an important fact we could write in our notes.
We talked about the importance of taking notes:
- writing down the most important information
- putting the information in our own words (don't copy from the page)
- write down the information in a short way.
On the organizer, students have a space to take notes from each source, and a space to cite their sources. This gets them ready for upper elementary when they have to create a bibliography page with their sources.
After we took notes from PebbleGo, using bullet points for each fact we found, students filled out their sources. Then we used a book about Barbara Park and followed the same steps.
After modeling, students then used PebbleGo, their books, and other reliable sources that the teacher and I had looked up before hand, to begin taking their own notes.
They will continue their research over the next two weeks, then make their presentations in class. I always love to see the students dressed up as their famous person.
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