Reading Strategy Annotation

Annotation helps you to interact with the text for better reading comprehension.

• true
• false

Annotation includes doing ALL of the following EXCEPT

• shouting out aloud

• circling words

• underlining text

• numbering lines or paragraphs

Annotation is a reading strategy.

• true
• false

Which of these situations would NOT require you to annotate by underlining or highlighting the text?

• information that is confusing

• information you already know

• information that is interesting

• information that is surprising

Which details do you identify in a passage?

• unimportant details

• repeated words or phrases

• the words "a", "an" and "the"

• all of these

Annotating is defined as...

• highlighting the entire text.
• markings/notes made on a text as you read it.
• summarizing the title. 
• taking notes about the main idea. 

The purpose of annotating is to...

• memorize text

• make us do more work than we should be doing in English.

• highlight the text word for word.

• allow you to interact with, understand, and think about what the text is saying.

When you underline the text you are marking...

• parts that might be important

• words you don't know the meaning of

• answers that are on the study guide

• alliteration

When you make the mark "ll", you are marking . . .

• repeated words or phrases

• ideas that are shocking

• potential symbolism or metaphor

• something you just don't understand

True or False: you can ONLY annotate articles.

• True
• False