2. Annotations What are annotations?
Pay attention to words like “note” and “notation.”

4. Annotations
Writing in a book or article to show your interaction with the text.
Active reading
Supports understanding of a text and critical thinking
Having a conversation with the text (basically the author)
Questions, comments, opinions, and ideas inspired by the text
Represents your personal interaction with the story/article
Helps you focus on required aspects of the story, such as Author’s Style

5. Annotations Guide Making personal connections Predicting Inferring
Identifying main and supporting ideas
Unfamiliar vocabulary
Questions
Comments

6. Annotations Guide Making personal connections Predicting Inferring
Identifying main and supporting ideas
Unfamiliar vocabulary
Questions
Comments

7. Personal Connections
What does it mean when you connect with something?

8. Annotations Guide Making personal connections Predicting Inferring
Identifying main and supporting ideas
Unfamiliar vocabulary
Questions
Comments

9. Predicting
Based on the information that you have, what do you think will happen?
Start with the title.
Then look at any subtitles, pictures, or graphs.

10. Annotations Guide Making personal connections Predicting Inferring
Identifying main and supporting ideas
Unfamiliar vocabulary
Questions
Comments

11. Inferring
Make a logical deduction made on premises within the text. Strong reasoning.
Ex: The widow stood by the grave stone, surrounded by her family, with a damp handkerchief in her pale, shaky hands.
What things can we infer about the woman?

12. Annotations Guide Making personal connections Predicting Inferring
Identifying main and supporting ideas
Unfamiliar vocabulary
Questions
Comments

13. Identifying main and supporting ideas
Main ideas:
The point of the entire article.
Supporting ideas:
The point of sub sections and individual paragraphs.
Identify using a highlighter. If you don’t use a highlighter, then underline.

14. Annotations Guide Making personal connections Predicting Inferring
Identifying main and supporting ideas
Unfamiliar vocabulary
Questions
Comments

15. Unfamiliar Vocabulary
Words or phrases you:
Do not understand
Haven’t seen before
Think are interesting
Are used in a new or interesting way
Step 1: Identify by boxing or circling the word.
Step 2: attempt a definition – try to figure out what it means

16. Annotations Guide Making personal connections Predicting Inferring
Identifying main and supporting ideas
Unfamiliar vocabulary
Questions
Comments

17. Questions Start with clarifying questions: What? Who? Where? When?
Why?
How?
DO NOT STOP THERE!
Why does the author use so many statistics?
How can the information still be accurate after our modern innovations in technology?
What does the price of tea in China have to do with New Zealand’s sheep?

18. Annotations Guide Making personal connections Predicting Inferring
Identifying main and supporting ideas
Unfamiliar vocabulary
Questions
Comments

19. Comments
Predicting and inferring may fall under this category; however, this is also where you say things like:
This is interesting because…
I wonder if…
What if…
I do not understand this article because…
The author says s/he would… but that isn’t a good/bad idea because…
According to… this may/may not be accurate because…