Notes, not copies
Read a paragraph aloud, then close the book and say "What were the big ideas?" Write a few key words together. Kids learn that notes are short, in their own words, and never copied sentence for sentence.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
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