1. Annotating Text: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why You Should Be Doing It.

2. What is Annotating?
Annotating is any action that deliberately interacts with a text to enhance the reader's understanding of, recall of, and reaction to the text. Sometimes called "close reading," annotating usually involves highlighting or underlining key pieces of text and making notes in the margins of the text.

3. Make observations about the text below. (What did the reader do/use?)

6. What word do you hear within annotate?

7. Why annotate when you read?
To ensure that you understand what is happening in a text after you've read it
To help you summarize a text
To make connections to your own life
To help you remember key information
To see what message the author is trying to convey
To prepare you for discussion/writing

8. Bellringer: Wednesday 1. Put your signed syllabus in the basket. 2
Bellringer: Wednesday 1. Put your signed syllabus in the basket. 2. Pick up a notecard and answer these questions (don’t use your notes): Why should we annotate when we read? What tools should we use/not use when annotating text? How do you feel about annotating?

9. Annotation Tools

10. Annotating Text https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlUkc5hPzs
Use a colored pencil or pen – no highlighters!
Use highlighters ONLY for unfamiliar vocabulary – you should then look up the word and write a short definition in the margin or the end of the article
Number the paragraphs. Paragraph numbers act as a reference so you can easily refer to specific sections of the text.
Circle Key Terms, Names of People, Names of Places, and or Dates

11. Annotating Text
Underline an Author’s Claims: A claim is an arguable statement or assertion made by the author.
Use arrows to make comments in the margins.
Summarize at various points while reading; write a statement or two at the end that summarizes the entire article.
Use symbols [these are on the chart]

12. Let’s Practice!
1. Highlight the author and publication date. Write the citation next to it.
2. Number the paragraphs.
3. Read the article WITHOUT making any annotations; the only marks you should make are to highlight unfamiliar vocabulary.
4. Re-read the article and annotate.

13. AoW Reminders It should look like this
Use a colored pencil or pen; highlighters ONLY for vocabulary (define!!!!)
Use symbols and notes
It should look like this