Cornell Notes Template & Note-Taking Strategies
Middle & High School
- Grades
- Grades 6–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 29
- Answer keys
- Included
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Teach students how to take Cornell notes, step by step, and give them the templates to use all year. This Cornell notes resource for middle and high school includes a fully annotated example, lessons on four note-taking methods (Cornell, outline, concept mapping and charting), an abbreviations and symbols list, science and history practice passages, cue-question and summary-writing practice, four Cornell notes templates, a self-check rubric and sample completed notes.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 5-session pacing, materials and differentiation (support, on level, challenge)
- Standards (CCSS literacy in science and history) & contents page
- Why take notes? Choose-a-method guide with practice
- Cornell notes step by step: page layout and the 5 Rs (record, reduce, recite, reflect, review)
- Annotated example: a photosynthesis passage with reading marks + finished Cornell notes with numbered callouts
- The outline method, mapping (concept maps) and the charting method, each with an example and a mini practice
- Abbreviations & symbols reference list + shorthand practice
- Science passage (plate tectonics) + Cornell notes practice
- History passage (the Erie Canal) + Cornell notes practice
- Writing cue questions (with question stems) and summary writing practice (including SWBST)
- 4 Cornell notes templates: standard, lined, with vocabulary box, with diagram space
- 16-point self-check rubric
- Note-Taking Check quiz
- Sample completed notes for both practice passages + answer keys
How to use it
Teach it over five class periods in science, social studies, ELA, advisory or study skills, then keep the templates in student binders for every class. Works well at the start of the year, in freshman transition programs and as a resource-room support.
Skills practiced
Cornell notesoutliningconcept mappingchartingabbreviationscue questionssummarizingself-assessment
