4Ps
Annotation Symbols
QAR
CER
Signposts
100

Name the 4P's of prediction

prior reading, pictures, patterns, and proving

100

This symbol is used for something you do not understand in the text.

What is a question mark?

100

The answer to this question type can be found in one sentence of the text.

What is Right There?

100

This step in the CER is when you make a statement that can be argued.

What is claim?

100

This signposts makes you ask yourself What does this difference mean for the character/setting/ or plot?

Contrast and Contradiction

200

This PREDICTION method is based on images.

What is pictures

200

This symbol in annotating text is used for something you are surprised by.

What is an exclamation mark ! ?

200

The answer to this question type is in the text but you need to look in multiple places for the complete answer.

What is Think and Search?

200

In order to back up your statement in the first step you need this to prove your point.

what is Evidence?

200

Which signpost would you a character exclaim "That's it, I realized the answer!"

Aha! Moment

300

This PREDICTION method is based on repeated words.

Patterns


300

This symbol is used for essential details in fiction

What is a star * ?

300

Use what the writer tells you and your own knowledge of the topic to determine an answer.

What is Writer and Me?

300

Explaining how your evidence supports your claim is this.

What is Reasoning?

300

Which signpost would you question a character's decision making skills?

Tough Questions

400

This PREDICTION method is based on what you already know about the topic.

What is prior knowledge?

400

You do this for an important event or information in fiction.

What is underline (or highlight)?

400

Using your own knowledge to determine the answer to this question type.

What is On My Own?

400

Make a CER statement about the story Having Troy Home

does the statement contain Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning?

400

A flashback is which signpost?

Memory Moment

500

This PREDICTION method is based on checking your predictions after reading.

What is proving?

500

Used in Social Studies only this Symbols is used only for Viewpoints.

What is circling

500

What does QAR stand for?

Question-Answer Relationship?

500

Make a CER statement about Having Troy Home

does the statement contain Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning?

500

Which signpost will you learn a life lesson from an elder?

words of the wiser

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