1. Notes on Annotations Annotating: Connecting closely with the text
Text to Self (T-S) – This is when you can personally relate to the text. For example – a character has a dog die. You relate to that lost feeling, because you recently lost a pet.
Remember these are not minor connections (such as - the character is a boy and I am a boy).

2. Annotations
Text to Text (T-T) – This is when something in the story reminds you of another text, whether it be a novel, short story, movie, TV show, poem, song, etc.
Example – The main character often repeats words to himself, which reminds me of Brick on The Middle.

3. Annotations
Text to World (T-W) – This is when something in story reminds you of something that has happened, is currently happening, or might happen in the world (culturally, geographically, socially, etc.)
Example: The character “discovers” a cave and claims it for himself, even though it belongs to someone else. This reminds me of how Columbus claimed the Americas for himself, even though the Native Americans already lived there.

4. What does it look like?

5. What does it look like? -Observations -Connections (T-T, T-W, T-S) -Predictions -Questions ALWAYS predict answers