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Annotating a Text

Annotating a Text. Five Pillars of Annotating a Text. Preview the Text Read for Understanding Pose Questions Identify Author’s Voice/Purpose Make Connections. Preview the Text: Make a Prediction. Look for: Titles Captions Headings Graphics Make Predictions.

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Annotating a Text

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  1. Annotating a Text

  2. Five Pillars of Annotating a Text • Preview the Text • Read for Understanding • Pose Questions • Identify Author’s Voice/Purpose • Make Connections

  3. Preview the Text: Make a Prediction • Look for: • Titles • Captions • Headings • Graphics • Make Predictions

  4. Preview the Text: Skim • Read through the text quickly to get a sense for the content and structure • Skimming is reading a text to get the gist, the basic overall idea, rather than concentrating on absorbing all the details.

  5. Read for Understanding: Noting ideas that stand out • Mark anything you think is: • Confusing (?) • Interesting (!) • Surprising (wow) • Important (*, ***)

  6. Read for Understanding: Notes Key Ideas • Highlight, underline & star (*,***) key ideas, major themes, main points • HUG???

  7. Poses Qs: Circle Unknown Words • If you do not know what a word means, circle it. Finish reading the paragraph or section. Then return and find the meaning.

  8. Poses Qs: Write Qs in Margin • Write questions where you made annotations. These questions can be used later to: • ask the teacher or a peer about your question • for the class discussion • to use in future writing assignments • or for you to keep as a reminder of what you were thinking.

  9. Poses Qs: Mark Confusing Passages • If something is confusing or you are losing comprehension, mark it w/ a question mark. • Re-read the previous section of text and write and/or answer your questions in the margin.

  10. Identifies Author’s Voice/Purpose • What is the Author Trying to Say • Record places in the text that have strong positive (+) or negative (-) connotations • Paraphrase what the author is saying in the margins after a paragraph or a section

  11. Identifies Author’s Voice/Purpose • How does the Author Say what s/he says? • Word Choice • Tone • Point of View • Style

  12. Make Connections • Make connections • Text-to-Text • Text-to-Self • Text-to-World

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