It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
effective textbook marking
I. What is Textbook Marking?
II. Deciding What to Mark
III. Steps in the Process of Textbook Marking
· Preview
· Study-Read
· Mark or Highlight Text
· Write Margin Cues
IV. Knowing How Much to Infer
V. Developing a Personal System of Textbook Marking
VI. Practice with Reading Passages
Textbook marking is:
· a systematic mark-and-label reading tool that helps you distinguish important ideas from less-important ideas
· a way to identify the main idea, important details and new vocabulary in your textbook chapters
· a way to flag information that is unclear to you so you are reminded to clarify the information before you are tested
· a personal system, which needs to be
· consistent
· makes sense to the individual student using it
· achieves the main goal of showing relationships between ideas in textbooks
dIRECTIONS
Make one copy the reading following these directions (page 139) for each of your students, and have them mark, by highlighting or underlining, the main idea and the major supporting details. Then, ask the following
exercise 10-1 & 10-2: textbook marking check
Directions: Think about how you currently mark in your textbooks and answer the following questions:
1. My margin notes are legible. Yes_____ No _____
2. I write my notes in ink. Yes _____ No _____
3. I use a consistent format: notes in paragraph form _____ sentences _____ phrases ____
4. I create questions, using headings, visuals, etc. Yes ____ No _____
5. I use abbreviations in my margin notes, such as 1,2,3, to indicate a process, MI for main idea, and EXfor examples. Yes ____ No ____
6. I effectively use abbreviations and I remember what they mean. Yes ____ No _____
7. I somehow identify new words. Yes ____ No ____
8. I consistently identify the main idea in the paragraphs. Yes ____ No _____
9. I clearly mark the items I don’t understand. Yes ____ No ____
10. I consistently identify major supporting details. Yes _____ No _____
11. I write summaries for each chapter to use as a study aid. Yes ____ No ____
12. I have developed a personal system of symbols. Yes ____ No ____
13. I seem to know how much to mark; I don’t overmark. Yes ____ No ____
14. My grades have improved as a result of my textbook marking; studying is easier now that
I have identified what’s important. Yes ____ No ____
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supplemental vocabulary quiz
Answers for Crossword Puzzle
Chapter ten vocabulary QUIZ
Across
3 words that help you to identify main ideas, clues to main points
5 equal
7 participation in wrong
9 lively feeling with a slight edge
11 eloquent public speaker
15 a hormone, triggered by stress
16 humiliation
17 respecting
Down
1 unchanged, uncorrupted
2 little story
4 well spoken, articulate
5 systematic way of marking ideas in a textbook
6 visualization of successful actions
8 attacked
10 compelled
12 to send away
13 masked hoods worn by Afghan women
14 nonsense
Summary for “what is technology?”
Sample summary:
Technology is the creation of new products and processes that are designed to improve our survival, comfort level, and quality of life. It is developed from scientific knowledge and theories. Some technologies arose before anyone understood or tested the principles that made them possible. Scientific knowledge is often published, shared, and verified, unlike technological discoveries, which are often kept secret until they are patented.
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