Make note taking more meaningful and interactive. Have students work together to make sense of what they have read and what they discuss. Visual note taking can take many forms, like the mind map shown below. There is a great article on the blog The Cool Cat Teacher titled: "Note Taking Skills for 21st Century Students." It has great ideas and several videos about visual note taking. Let your students draw their way into deep comprehension and understanding of the content you want them to learn.
This is the link to the blog and search for the article listed above: The Cool Cat Teacher
You can also view the videos at my YouTube channel on the Note Taking playlist: ELA Instructional Coach YouTube Channel
