"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 1:07 PM -0500 wrote: >As a relative newbie to middle school education, when you say that you >have >the students write down headings and subheading on the left side, do you >mean the left side of one page? Are you dividing one sheet of notebook >paper in half or are you using a spiral notebook and on the left side >heading/sub and the right side page the notes.
Hi! Different note-taking systems use both ideas, the two-page system (headings on the left, notes on the right) and the one-page system (dividing the page into two columns). At a summer school class at Landmark College, I learned when using the one-page system to divide the page in thirds; the left-hand third holds the headings and sub-headings, the other two thirds hold the notes. They do print special paper ruled this way, or at least they used to. I hope this helps. Personally, I favor the one-page system, for environmental reasons if nothing else, but one can easily argue students should know about both and make their own choices. Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
