1. Annotations: Show Your Thinking While Reading

2. What is Annotation? & Why Use It?
1) Writing in the margins, NOT highlighting.
2) Showing your thoughts about a text.
3) Helping you understand what you’re reading.
What is Annotation? & Why Use It?

3. Ways to Annotate Written Annotations
-Connect – connect to your personal experience, background knowledge, etc.
-Clarify – restate/write to simplify the author’s point or the information
-Question – write a question about what you want to know or what you are confused about
-Summarize – sentence summary of what you read
-Respond – respond to the text, give your opinion or thoughts
-Infer – make an inference of what the author is saying
-Feel – state an opinion or feeling you have
Ways to Annotate Written Annotations

4. Symbolic Annotations ★or underline = main idea or key information
! = new or surprising information
Circle or ? = confusing information or word I don’t know
BK = background knowledge
G.R.A.P.E.S. = connection to a G.R.A.P.E.S. category
↵ = connection to you or other info.
Symbolic Annotations