Reading as an important language activity today is in crisis, especially required reading. This paper talks about required reading, reading lessons and especially about the literary book reading notes. The paper starts with the method of teaching lectures and the method of notetaking respectively taking notes in lower grades of elementary school. Writing of own text is challenging for students and appears to be the hard part of the teaching of required reading and makes an influence on the reader's motivation. The way and the form of writing notes are being questioned and for this purpose a research on the required reading and writing is carried out in the fourth grade of elementary school. The research was conducted by a questionnaire survey using the Likert scale to determine student's attitudes toward writing their own notes about the literary work in a school system. The results of the research show acceptance of the system of notetaking as a school obligation, awareness of its need, but also interest in individualisation and non-typeable forms of notetaking.