Studies suggest that when students are taught a structured note-taking strategy, there is a remarkable increase in engagement, reading comprehension and retention. With this workbook, students develop proficiency in the versatile PDP Cornell Note-taking method, improve 21st century critical thinking skills and increase their academic and content vocabulary knowledge. Each lesson uses the PDP Notes strategy and focuses on an adolescent friendly non-fiction article (written in both English and Spanish) with topics that range from test-taking skills to cyber-bullying. There are ‘scaffolded’ note-taking graphic organizers for each lesson that provide extra assistance for those students in need. Teach your students this systematic process and witness the difference it makes in their comprehension and their abilities to analyze non-fiction text. This is one tool your students must have in their comprehension repertoire! Grades 6-11.