Educator Guide: Literacy Practices Templates

About this guide

Use one of the literacy templates in this guide with any Science News or Science News Explores article. Each template guides students through a different literacy strategy to help increase effective learning, comprehension and retention. These templates were created in collaboration with our Science News Learning Literacy Ambassador Janice Lewis.

This Guide Includes:

Exercise type:Activity
Topic:Science & Society
Category:Literacy Practices

Literacy Practice: Cornell Note-Taking System

Use this lesson plan and the provided template to have your students practice the Cornell Note-taking System with any article. This literacy strategy organizes notes into two columns that provide structure for note-taking, analysis and review and that will help increase students’ learning, comprehension and retention.