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** Highlighting and Notetaking **  = = = =

Effective Highlighting: Less is More
To effectively highlight text, read the text, think about it, and make decisions about what you need to remember and learn. You can't possibly remember everything. The challenge is to distinguish between important information and less important details. You need to highlight main ideas and essential supporting details, but leave unimportant information alone. You may want to use one color for highlighting main ideas and another color for highlighting details.

Guidelines for Effective Highlighting

 * Look carefully at the first and last line of each paragraph . Important information is often contained there.
 * Highlight only necessary words and phrases -- not entire sentences
 * Don’t get thrown off by interesting details . Although they are fascinating, they often obscure (hide) important information.
 * Make <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">notes in the margin to emphasize a pertinent highlighted word or phrase.
 * Note <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">cue words . They are almost always followed by important information.
 * Pay attention to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">headings, sub-headings,symbols and colors that emphasize essential ideas.
 * Pay attention to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">surprising information . It might mean you are learning <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">something new .<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When finished, check to see that no <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">more than half <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">paragraph <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is highlighted. As readers become more adept, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">one-third of the paragraph <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is a good measure for highlighting.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Discovery Tasks**
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> __Content__ //Strategies That Work// by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * 1) Visit and bookmark the website for [|Awesome Highlighter.]
 * 2) Choose an article online and try using Awesome Highlighter.
 * 3) Highlight text that you have to read for one of your classes. Make sure you follow the effective guidelines for highlighting.
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