Showing posts with label annotate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label annotate. Show all posts

Tuesday

Great Daily News Site: Lexiles included!!

FREE to join and set up classes. You can alter the lexile of the articles to meet your students' needs :)

Successful Teaching Moment

8 weeks left of the school year and I feel that my kids have gotten the hang of independent annotation. Literally my only instruction: read and annotate!

Friday

Annotating = Taking Notes; Not Just Underlining and Highlighting

8th grade example of independent annotation: 

 "aNOTEtation" is our key phrase to remind ourselves that close reading and annotating is not just underlining and highlighting a page. Making it colorful does not show a reader's understanding!