CHS Reading

Annotation is an important skill that students can use for a variety of purposes. It helps students to be active readers, comprehend and retain information, and utilize notes for comprehension questions, summaries and formal papers.

How to Annotate:

• Underline important information.

• Comment on important information in the margins.

• Write questions in the margins.

• Write definitions above challenging words.

• Summarize at the end of each section.

• Number steps in a process.

Use Read&Write for Google Chrome, DocHub or Diigo for online texts.

Use pencils or highlighters for paper texts.

If you’re really stuck, try to determine “Who, What, When, Where, Why and How.”

When readers lose mental pictures, comprehension is lost!

• As we read, we create mental images of what is happening. Our own version of the story plays in our imaginations like a movie.

• We use what we already know about the world around us.

• We make connections, infer, and pay attention to details.

• Characters are created in our minds.

Name of Text Feature: Purpose of Text Feature

• Title: Quickly tells the reader what information they will learn about
  
• Table of contents: Shows the different chapter or section titles and where they are located
• Index: Directs where to go in the text to find specific information on a topic, word, or person
• Glossary: Identifies important vocabulary words and gives their definitions
• Headings or subtitles: Help the reader identify the main idea for that section of text
• Sidebars: Set apart from the main text (usually located on the side or bottom of the page) to elaborate on a detail mentioned in the text
• Pictures and captions: Show an important object or idea from the text
• Labeled diagrams: Detailed depictions of an object from the text with labels that teach the important components
• Charts and graphs: Represent and show data related to, or elaborate on, something in the main body of the text
• Maps: Locate a place in the world that is related to the text

Use pictures, titles, headings, text and personal experiences to make predictions before and during reading.

"By looking at the cover, I am predicting the story will be about _____.

Think ahead while reading and anticipate events in the text.

"My prediction that the story would be about ____ was right, but I did not think that ____ would happen. I'll make a new prediction that _____ will happen based on what we read."

After making predictions, revise or verify predictions.

"My first prediction was _____. After reading part of the story I predicted _____. Now that I am finished reading I think my predictions were close/not close to what really happened because_____."

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