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Leaving Tracks of Your Thinking

Annotating Text. Leaving Tracks of Your Thinking. Why Annotate?. Help in doing “something” with it later - ERR, summarizing, literature circles, refreshing your memory Makes your teacher happy

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Leaving Tracks of Your Thinking

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  1. Annotating Text Leaving Tracks of Your Thinking

  2. Why Annotate? • Help in doing “something” with it later - ERR, summarizing, literature circles, refreshing your memory • Makes your teacher happy • Combat boredom! Reading is an ACTIVE process. In order to understand, you need to be engaged and thinking about what you’re reading.

  3. Why Not Just Highlight? • Lull to sleep with highlighter... What was THAT for?! • Annotating allows you to: • Underline key ideas/topic sentences • Star critical parts of the text • Leave questions or comments in the margins • Quickly jot down things it reminds you of • Note themes found in the margin • Outline points the author makes with numbers Easier to go back to text later for reference.

  4. Suggestions for Annotating • Underline important ideas. • ! == Something that was surprising • ? = A questions you have, or something that’s confusing to you • Circle peoples’ names • Squiggle lines or boxes around new vocabulary

  5. Make it Your Own • Annotating is for YOU and needs to work for YOU! • Adapt your style to meet your needs - what‘s your purpose for reading? • Color code, use flags, post-its, whatever... ...Just do Something!

  6. Let's Give It A Shot • Read the following article and do your best to record your thinking through annotating. Remember to try and • Underline important ideas. • ! == Something that was surprising • ? = A questions you have, or something confusing • Circle peoples’ names • Squiggle lines or boxes around new • vocabulary

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