Teacher Notes / Instructions

These resources are designed to support a structured focused note-taking process and align well with AVID-style instructional strategies. This resource is not affiliated with or endorsed by AVID.

Each handout corresponds to a specific phase of processing notes that have already been taken. The materials are flexible and can be used with any content area or note-taking format.

Included Resources:

Interacting with Your Notes

These pages print four to a page and are ideal for having students revisit, annotate, and reflect on their notes. They work well as warm-ups, exit tickets, or small-group processing activities.

Questioning Strategies

Two handouts focused on developing deeper student questioning:

• Connecting Ideas: Students use Costa’s Levels of Questioning to write a Level 2 question that connects the current set of notes to a previous set of notes.
• Leveling Up Our Questions: Students use the three levels of Costa’s Levels of Thinking to revise a Level 1 question into Levels 2 and 3, then answer their questions on the back.

Answering the Essential Question

This handout provides scaffolds for students to use their notes to respond thoughtfully to the lesson’s essential question, supporting synthesis and reflection.

Timing and Pacing:

Each handout takes 10-25 minutes to complete.

Uses:

These handouts can be reused for any set of notes.