Reading Strategies II: Using Post-It Notes to Mark Up the Text

One of the most important forms of note-taking happens in the margins of texts; commonly referred to as "marginalia" it is the act of assuming ownership of learned material by transacting with the text.  This happens most effectively with Post-It notes, especially when annotating a text is not feasible (i.e., school textbooks).  There are actually many different forms of taking notes using sticky notes, but I've found two levels of using them:

• 1. Asking questions about what isn't understood during reading (then following up on doing the research necessary to answer these questions).
• 2. Responding to annotations made on Post-It notes as can be seen in the images I've included here; the text used was Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice.

As a brief codicil to using sticky notes in teaching students note-taking skills, I'd like to pass on an absolutely amazing and downright useful link to the New York Times blog on using articles from the New York Times as resources for textual material.  To this end, the following link would be great to use in teaching students a variety of note-taking methods:

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/briefly-noted-practicing-useful-annotation-strategies/