Note Taking Worksheet
This note taking worksheet has 3rd Grade students read a short article about lighthouses, finish five notes in a chart, and choose the best summary. An answer key is included.
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Description
This note taking worksheet gives students something real to take notes on. Most organizers hand a child an empty chart and leave the reading somewhere else, so the note taking worksheet turns into a blank box. Here the short article sits right on the page, and every note the student writes has to come out of it.
Students read a 107-word article about lighthouses, then finish five notes in the chart below it. Each note names one fact to look for — what a lighthouse keeps safe, what early lighthouses burned, what bends the light into a beam — so students practise pulling out key words instead of copying whole sentences. The page finishes with a summary question: three summaries are offered and students fill in the bubble beside the one that really covers the article. That is the second half of note taking, and it is the part a blank organizer never asks for. As a 3rd grade graphic organizer worksheet it works on its own or as a model before students take notes on a longer book.
What’s Included
- A short non-fiction article written on a 3rd grade reading level
- A five-line note chart, one cue per line
- A best-summary question with three fill-in-the-bubble choices
- A full answer key on the final page
Three Reasons This Helps Kids
- Notes stay short. Each cue asks for a word or two, so students learn that a note is not a whole sentence copied off the page.
- The cues model the questions good readers ask. After a few pages like this, students start asking them without a chart.
- Summarizing gets practised, not assumed. Choosing the best summary shows students the difference between a true detail and the main point.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Read the article aloud once before students write anything, then let them reread on their own while they fill in the chart. Ask students to cover the article and retell it using only their five notes; if the retelling falls apart, the notes were too thin, and that is a useful thing for a student to discover. Once the page is done, hand out a paragraph from a science or social studies book and have students write their own five cues for it. The same chart also works as a partner activity: one student reads a line of the article aloud while the other decides whether it belongs in the notes.
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