LSN
“Enrichment beyond the classroom”
Literacy
Strategy
Notebook
Three Column Guide
The three-column note taker guide is a literacy based strategy that helps students sort out what they read or write and effectively categorizes and divides up their thoughts. For social studies, this note taker can be used with various primary sources including political cartoons, journal entries, and photographs. The three-column note taker is very useful for social studies classrooms because it emphasizes the importance and meaning of the words beyond what they plainly state. The note taker can also be used as a review reference for students later on in a unit. Students can complete these during lecture, as homework, and as group work where they share their answers and clarify information.
*Formulate Questions
*Make Inferences
*Determine Importance
*Synthesize and Summarize Information
