English Language Arts

Annotating – Reading Strategies

Annotating – Reading Strategies

Concept sheet | English Language Arts

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3-6

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What Is Annotating?
Annotating: How & Why?
Annotating at a Glance
Reading Strategies at a Glance
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What Is Annotating?

Annotating is taking notes and writing down comments on the text while reading it.

Annotating: How & Why?

Reasons for annotating

• Help remember

• Make it easier to understand

• Organize thoughts & ideas

• Make it easier to review

How to make annotations

• Taking notes

• Highlighting

• Circling

• Using marks (→ * ♥)

• Using sticky notes

• Doodling

Annotating at a Glance

Summary of the annotating reading strategy. Annotating is a good strategy to help remember, organize ideas, make it easier to understand and easier to review. Annotating can be done by taking notes, highlighting, circling, making marks, using sticky notes or even doodling.

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Reading Strategies at a Glance

Summary table of the 12 reading strategies: previewing, activating prior knowledge, making predictions, decoding, visualizing, questioning, annotating, making connections, graphic organizers, inferring, summarizing and skimming & scanning.

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