Effective Reading: Annotating for Understanding
Explore the importance of annotations in reading, such as writing in the margins, summarizing, questioning, and connecting personal experiences to the text. Annotating helps simplify complex information, clarify key points, and deepen comprehension through engagement with the text.
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Annotations: Show Your Thinking While Reading
1) Writing in the margins, NOT highlighting. 2) Showing your thoughts about a text. 3) Helping you understand what you re reading. What is Annotation? & Why Use It?
-Connect connect to your personal experience, background knowledge, etc. -Clarify restate/write to simplify the author s point or the information -Question write a question about what you want to know or what you are confused about Ways to Annotate -Summarize sentence summary of what you read Written Annotations -Respond respond to the text, give your opinion or thoughts -Infer make an inference of what the author is saying -Feel state an opinion or feeling you have
or underline = main idea or key information ! = new or surprising information Circle or ? = confusing information or word I don t know Symbolic Annotations BK = background knowledge G.R.A.P.E.S. = connection to a G.R.A.P.E.S. category = connection to you or other info.
