Expository Text

 

Structured Note-Taking

 

Write Topic Here

 

 

 

What problems did they face?

 

 

What changes caused these problems?

 

What did they do to solve the problems?

Summary Sentence

 

 

 

 

 

Note: From “Structured note taking: a new strategy for content area

Readers.” By P. Smith and G. Tompkins, 1988, in Journal of Reading,

32(1), pp. 46-53. Copyright © 1988 by the International Reading Association.