Teaching annotation middle school

Students can struggle with reading for a variety of reasons: rich vocabulary, lack of background knowledge, the author's writing style. To scaffold difficult texts, teach students to annotate through the gradual release process.

This Annotating Text-Teach, Model, & Apply activity will encourage your students to learn how to annotate properly and efficiently.

Everything you need to know about close reading in middle school - resources, tips, tricks, and strategies for successful annotation in all subject areas.

Annotation Academy- Teach your kids to annotate right! -

When it comes to teaching close reading and annotation, is there anything worse than seeing your students mindlessly highlighting for pages and pages with no real understanding of what they're highlighting or why they're highlighting it? The frustrating part is that highlighting indicates that they're trying, but it often shows that they don't understand why.

It's so important to explicitly teach your students how to annotate texts when they are close reading. Anytime we are looking at multiple (or paired passages) students need the skills to know how to mark up and annotate each text. This FREE resource will help them to build these important skills!

The Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages guide the teacher step by step through how to teach annotation and create strong readers.

Getting kids excited about annotating text is a challenge. Using SNOTS not only helps students annotate text, it's engaging and fun.

A blog to help elementary teachers build readers and writers who think boldly and deeply.