Interactive Notetaking for Content-Area Literacy

Help students build content-area literacy and increase retention and achievement across multiple subject areas through effective interactive notetaking! This grade-range-specific resource provides K-2 students with creative strategies for developing interactive notetaking skills in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and special topics. Lessons focus on partner work, vocabulary, comprehension, primary sources, and summarizing to engage students in critical thinking and analysis. Interactive notetaking helps students with the ability to access prior knowledge, build academic vocabulary and writing skills, improve test-taking abilities, reflect on their thinking about content, and remember the content they are learning. This essential resource for the 21st century classroom differentiates instruction to support the needs of students at each grade level.