1.1. There tends to be more negative outcomes of underlining and highlighting even though it is the most common strategy. Trying to find the most important ideas in the text causes more thinking then the understanding of the information that is being underlines.
1.2. EXAMPLE: The most effective is when I (the teacher) tells the students which sentence to underline because then they know the important ideas.
2. Summarizing
2.1. Summarizing is when you write a brief statement about the important information being taught.
2.2. EXAMPLE: Read page three and after you finish the fish pararagraph write down important details and then when you get done reading the end of the chapter about wolves, write another paragraph about the important details
3. Writing to Learn
3.1. Writing about the information that is needed to know helps when it comes to understanding the information but it has to be focused writing for people to comprehend the information.
3.2. EXAMPLE: The teacher gives the students a study guide to fill out and the study guide is formatted where the students have to write out the correct answers. The people who fill out the study guide will have a better understanding of the information than the others who did not fill it out.
4. The PQ4R Method
4.1. Preview, question, read, reflect, recite, and review. This strategy is more effective in older children. It helps them organize their information but also use multiple different effective strategies.
4.2. EXAMPLE: I would use this strategy when we get done reading a chapter in our book and at the end of the book. It helps with comprehension, retelling and retaining the information.
5. Practice Tests
5.1. Using practice test to study is the most effective study strategy. Having the practice tests before yore real test, tells you as the person taking it what you know and what you need to practice more on. Also, being able to correctly write out the answer will engage you in high- level processing.
5.2. EXAMPLE: My favorite way to make practice tests is to either put the information on a Kahoot and have that be the practice test or to make a quizelet and then there is an option that says "test" and it makes a practice test over the information on your quizlet.
6. Note Taking
6.1. Note taking has some benefits but also has a negative side. The positive side of note taking is when it is used for complex thinking and the critical task is to find the main ideas. Also when the person has to mentally process the information at a high degree.
6.2. EXAMPLE: Note taking is more effective when you actually have to process the information and not just writing stuff down from he powerpoint. Being able to write the information in your own words so that you better connect the new information.
7. Outlining and Concept Mapping
7.1. Outlining is when you use the main point from the information and use the detail to place in the higher-level thinking outline. Then, Concept Mapping is when you use the important information and use the connections between them to create a diagram.
7.2. EXAMPLE: For Outlining, I remember growing up, having to have a outline of the topics you are going to talk about in the paper you were about to write. We could not start our paper unless we had the outline on what we were going to write about.
7.3. EXAMPLE: For concept mapping, I would use this for when you are connecting information together such as geography. Knowing how the water cycle would be a good one to use a concept map for because all the information ties back to one main idea.
