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Post-it Notes are a great way to help you engage students in activities that promote active reading skills and general top down reading strategies. Lets look at some examples created by Year 3 Bachelor of Education students, semester one. What a great group of students!
The benefits of Post-its
1. Helps readers engage in active reading processes.
2. Promotes the use of active strategy use.
3. Engages students with manipulatives.
4. Work as "Cognitive Nuggets" that help students comprehend and learn.
5. Let's the readers take notes on the text AND easily removed for summary activities.
These notes can be used to effectively in many different strategies:
Making predictions
Making timelines
Visualizing
Two column notes
Paraphrasing
Details vs Main Ideas
KWL
SQR3
Summarizing
Making flow charts
Think Aloud Protocols
Creating concept maps
Creating questions for other students...
Here are some examples that were created by my Bachelor of Education Program, Year 3.
1. Sticky notes to promote visual processing: With this strategy, the readers read and draw their versions of the text at key points. Reading is a very visual process and this can help. In addition, it can help visual learners express their ideas in a different way. When they students are finished they can give a summary of the text by looking at the drawings. In short the readers draw a mental model of the text, which promotes comprehension.
2. The notes can also be use for the KWL strategy: Ask the students to brainstorm what they know about the topic and have them make row 1. This is followed by what they want to know, which is row 2. The final row is what they learned. This is a simple, effective way to engage them in this strategy.
3. Main Ideas vs. Details in a text: The notes can help student keep track of main ideas. For example, on the left, the reader has put the main topics and on the right the details. When the reading is over, the teacher can remove the text and let the students match the main ideas with the details. This can be an effective way to check for comprehension.
4. Identifying Key Words: In this method, the students write down key words from the text and when finished, the teacher can remove the text and the students can write a summary with the key words or give an oral summary.
5. General Note Taking: Students can use the Post-its in a way that makes sense to them. Here is an example. As you can see these students used different types of Post-its to make a more colorful and organized set of notes.
6. Making a time line: For this type of activity, the students use the sticky notes to create a time line of events, which helps scaffold them through the text.
7. Showing cause & effect relationships: The notes can be used to identify the causes of an event on one side of the paper, while the effects go on the other side. When the text is removed, the students can discuss the causes and effects as a way to recall and process the text.
8. Showing problem solutions: The notes can be used to identify the problems on one side of the paper, while the solutions go on the other side. When the text is removed, the students can discuss the problems and solutions. Again, the students recall, process and discuss.
9. Comparison & Contrast: The sticky note can be used to track similar and contrasting concepts during the reading. This is followed up by removing the text and discussing the notes separate from the text.
10. Think Aloud Protocols: Students write their thoughts and questions on the sticky notes as they arise in the text.
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