Notes Significant Details of Various Text Types: 1 Quarter

There are two main reasons why note-taking is
Notes Significant Details of important:

Various Text Types  When you are reading or listening, taking notes
helps you concentrate.
 In order to take notes - to write something
sensible - you must understand the text.
As listening and reading are interactive tasks,
taking notes help you make sense of the text.
Details – A part of a whole.
- The small elements that collectively
constitute a work.
Noting details is a reading comprehension skill that
involves picking out piece of text or particular
information to achieve a given purpose.
1st Quarter
Taking notes
Details are divided into two:
1. Implicit Details – details used to describe or
define general state. (details that we can’t really
see; implied but not plainly expressed).
2. Explicit Details – specific details. (details that
we can see and are measurable. (stated clearly).
Example:
Kobe’s favorite sport is basketball. He loves

Noting details enables the reader to fully understand
wearing basketball shorts. He goes to the a certain text and helps unlock the question he/she
court every week to play. His backpack has has before, during, and after reading.
LeBron James on it.
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2 Text Types - Text types in literature form the basic
styles of writing. Factual texts merely seek to inform,
Implicit Explicit whereas literary texts seek to entertain or otherwise
He loves wearing engage the reader by using creative language and
basketball shorts. imagery.
Four basic categories are:
Kobe’s favorite sport is He goes to the court
basketball. every week. 1. Narrative - tells a story to entertain the
audience or readers (It is organized
His backpack has sequentially, with a beginning, middle, and
LebRon James on it. end.)
Example of Narrative text:
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2. Descriptive – Puts a picture in your head.
Creates a vivid picture of an idea, place, or
person. It is much like painting with words. It 5
focuses on one subject and uses specific detail
to picture it. 3. Expository – explains something. To-the-
point and factual. This category of writing
Example of Descriptive Text: includes definitions, instructions, directions,
and other basic comparisons and
clarifications.
Example of Expository text-

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How to note details?
4. Persuasive – wants the audience to agree.
Strong persuasive writing is like a debate 1. Always read the story with full understanding
played out in written words. The idea is to and internalize the lines printed.
express an opinion or to take a stance about 2. Write the important details.
something, and then to support that opinion in a 3. Jot down notes of highlight texts. You will
way that convinces the reader to see the subject know you’re doing the right thing when the
the same way you do. things you’ve taken down describes the main
idea and the supporting ideas.
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Activity 1 - 4 Pics 1 Word D L A R Z N
E X C I Y H
Each pictures are linked by one word, work out what
that word is from the set of letters given below the
pictures. (Write your answer in the blank provided)
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Activity 2
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P C A L R U
E H N B T S
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Answer the following questions based on the reading
passage. Don’t forget to go back to the passage 4. Why do you think people leave lights on when
whenever necessary to find or confirm your answers. they are not using them?
1. Passage compares Earth to the house. How are _____________________________________
they like? _____________________________________
____________________________________ _____________________________________
____________________________________ _____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________ 5. What is one thing that you, personally could do
today to help conserve resources?
____________________________________
2. What does ecology study? ____________________________________
____________________________________ ____________________________________
____________________________________ ____________________________________
____________________________________
3. Sometimes Earth-friendly products are a little

more expensive. Why should you buy them 13
anyway?
Activity 3
_____________________________________
12 Directions: Read the passage and write a short
_____________________________________ summary.
_____________________________________
Elias was assigned a big project in his social studies At school the next day, Elias turned in his finished
class. He wanted to do well on the project, but he product. Elias was not proud of the work he had
knew it was a lot of work. He thought it would be completed. He believed it would have been much
boring, too. Elias had two weeks until the due date. better if he spent more time on it. Elias wished that
he had been more responsible.
Elias could have gone home and started the project.
Instead, he put it off. He went skateboarding with his
friends at the park, and he played video games with
his brother. When his mom suggested he clean his
room, Elias happily cleaned. He chose to do anything
other than the project.
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Activity 4
Look at the following extracts from reading texts.
Match them to sentences which have the same
14 meaning. (Choose your answer from a,b,c and
Elias suddenly panicked as he remembered the due write it on the blank provided.)
date. -e project was due tomorrow! He hadn’t even _____1. Keeping your house cool or warm, driving
started. He was too afraid to tell his mom. She would cars and making things in factories all pollute the
not be happy about this. Immediately, Elias began atmosphere.
scrambling to figure out how he could get the project
_____2. This affects the world weather and makes it
done on time.
difficult for animals to find food and fresh water.
_____3. Humans take away animal’s homes and their
food by farming, when they cut down trees for wood,
and when they look for oil.
a. When the weather changes, animals can’t find
water & food easily.
b. Pollution comes from cars, factories, heating & air
conditioning. 17
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c. Cutting down trees and looking for oil damages
animals’ homes & takes away their food.

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There are two main reasons why note-taking is

Notes Significant Details of important:

Kobe’s favorite sport is basketball. He loves

Example of Expository text-

_ _ _ _ _ _ ___

3. Sometimes Earth-friendly products are a little

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