Annotating a Text
Annotating a text allows readers to comment and question a text while reading.
What to Annotate
Plot Points: important parts of the story.
Points of Confusion: unknown words or confusing plot points.
Literary Devices: Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, personification
Repeated Words or Phrases: key words or phrases the author uses multiple times, these are usually important.
Your Inferences: what are you inferring, the text clues and schema that support this.
Your Connections: the text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
Points of Confusion: unknown words or confusing plot points.
Literary Devices: Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, personification
Repeated Words or Phrases: key words or phrases the author uses multiple times, these are usually important.
Your Inferences: what are you inferring, the text clues and schema that support this.
Your Connections: the text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
Ways to Annotate
- Highlighting words with a color guide
- Notes in the margins
- Using symbols: ex., ?, !, *
- Sticky Notes