Annotating a text is like having a conversation with a book it allows active readers to ask questions comment on meaning and mark events and passages you want to revisit Purpose To help a serious reader to keep track of patterns contrasts plot events and character development ID: 641070
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Annotation
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Annotating
Annotating a text is like having a conversation with a book – it allows active readers to ask questions, comment on meaning, and mark events and passages you want to revisit.Slide3
Purpose
To help a serious reader to keep track of patterns, contrasts, plot events, and character development.
Assist a student in studying for a test or writing a paper that requires quotes to support ideas.Slide4
What’s in it for you?
Students who learn to highlight and annotate become active readers and recursive thinkers who notice patterns, symbolic elements, and contrast almost effortlessly as they absorb the text.Slide5
Elements for Annotating
Highlight or underline the chapter for images
Sound
Sight
Touch
Taste
Scent descriptions
Write down thoughts about the highlighted images in the margins of your text.Slide6
Elements for Annotating
Do the same for details (things that happen or facts revealed by the author that seem to create a definite effect on the reader).
Look for unfamiliar or unusual words, mark them, and write down their meanings with the help of a dictionary.Slide7
Elements for Annotating
Look for repetitive or musical sounds in the text.
Mark comparisons (metaphors and similes) and briefly note what effect the use of these comparisons has on the reader.
Note important plot events and/or conflicts at the top of each page of the text noting briefly the importance of each.Slide8
Elements for Annotating
Highlight or underline descriptive passages about the characters and make brief notes about the relationships between the characters and about each character’s personal attributes.
Mark interesting sentence structures and briefly note the way the author uses nouns, verbs, modifiers, and marks of punctuation for emphasis.