Taking Notes

We decided these are the important steps of the fact fragment frenzy:

Fact Fragment Frenzy

1.      Read the paragraph from beginning to end.

2.      Write a title for my notes.

3.      Read each sentence and write the most important words in my notes.

4.      I won’t need to write complete sentences.

5.      I won’t need to write small words, like articles and prepositions.

We then read an article from Time for Kids called "Packing a Safe Lunch." We practiced the fact fragment frenzy on the first paragraph. Words in red are the most important words of each sentence.

“Packing a Safe Lunch”

Next time you bring lunch to school, you might want to add some extra ice packs to your lunch bag or make sure it gets refrigerated. A new study found that most of the lunches kids bring to school and day care are being stored at unsafe temperatures. This can lead to the growth of harmful bacteria that causes food poisoning.

In our composition notebooks we wrote these as example notes.

Unsafe Lunches

Extra ice packs

Refrigerated

New study: unsafe temperatures

Harmful bacteria

Food poisoning

We then wrote 20-word summaries.