Annotation Strategies
What do you use from the text to make sense or find a deeper meaning in what you are reading?
Clues
How do you use context clues?
Look at the sentences/words surrounding the unknown word to identify its meaning.
Erick's mom is having a birthday party this weekend. He wants to do something special for her. Erick knows that his mom always wanted to go to the Grand Canyon. He turned on the computer and looked at the map. What is Erick doing? How do you know?
Erick is going to plan a trip to the Grand Canyon for his mom. Key words: mom always wanted to go to the Grand Canyon. and he looked at the map.
What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"The trees whispered to me as I walked through the enchanted forest."
Personification
Where is the setting in a story usually found?
Exposition
Where do we make our annotations?
Directly on the text of what we are reading
What does the word in injustice mean in the following sentence?
Kevin thought that it was a great injustice that girls could wear earrings in the school while the boys could not.
Something that is not right or fair
If I have a new classmate who came in the middle of the school year, I could infer that the new classmate might feel...
Scared, nervous, shy...
What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
But when the sick feeling goes away and I open my eyes, the red sweater's still sitting there like a big red mountain.
Simile
What is the universal lesson or theme in a story?
Theme
What are the six different types of annotation strategies?
Infer, Summarize, Predict, Connect, Visualize, and Question
What does the word in dignity mean in the following sentence?
Even when the police officers put the handcuffs on my mother, she maintained her dignity, holding her head up high as she was marched off the protest site.
Worthy/ self-respect
I am very sticky, but hard to see when dry. I go round and round across the page until I eventually run out. If you stick with me, in one piece you will be. What am I?
Glue stick
What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
School can either go on for a million hours or fly by in a second.
Hyperbole
What part of the plot in story comes BEFORE the resolution?
Falling action
Why do we make annotations while we read?
To make sense of what we are reading or find a deeper meaning in the text.
What is the difference between a contrast and comparison context clue?
Dad and Anna were finishing up a project in the garage together. "Can we paint the roof red?" asked Anna. "Sure," said Dad. "Then when the paint dries we can find a place to hang it in the backyard." What do you think Dad and Anna are making? Why do you think so?
Dad and Anna are making a birdhouse.
What figurative language is in the following song lyric?
"a tornado flew around my room before you came
excuse the mess it made, it usually doesn’t rain in
Southern California"
Metaphor
What kind of conflict is the following scenario?
“It’s all right with for you two, isn’t it, with your parents safely out of the way-“ “My parents are dead!” Harry bellowed. “And mine could be going in the same way!” yelled Ron. “The GO!” Roared Harry. “Go back to them, pretend you’ve got over your spattergroit and Mummy’ll be able to feed you up and-“ Ron made a sudden movement: Harry reacted, but before either wand was clear of its owner’s pocket, Hermione had raised her own. “Pretego!” she cried, and an invisible shield had expanded between her and Harry on the one side and Ron on the other; all of them were forced backward a few steps by the strength of the spell, and Harry and Ron glared from either side of the transparent barrier as though they were seeing each other clearly for the first time. Harry felt corrosive hatred toward Ron: something had broken between them."
External conflict
What type of annotation strategy is the following annotation?
Text: "Your time is up," she hissed, her eyes glowing like barbecue coals." Her fingers stretched, turning into talons. Her jacket melted into large, leathery wings. She wasn't human. She was a shriveled hag with bat wings and claws and a mouth full of yellow fangs, and she was about to slice me to ribbons.
Annotation: I bet the narrator is going to magically fight this creature and somehow win.
Predict
What does the word in indifferent mean in the following sentence?
Most of the boys in the class were in some heated argument about which sports team would win the big game, but Jeremy was indifferent. He just wanted to play Death Troopers on his game box
To not care or to not show interest
My mom and I waited in line with the rest of the passengers. My mom handed the lady our tickets. The lady smiled at her and said, "Have a great flight!" Where am I? a) school b) bus stop c) train station d) airport
d) airport. key words: waiting in line, tickets, flight
What does the following figurative language convey to the reader?
"One morning, the sunrise brought hope to Matilda when she saw a group of white men, including her father, approach the camp."
She has hope about something, now that it is a new day.
Read the following paragraphs:
"They tried to squeeze their feet and push hard into the slipper, but the servant was afraid the slipper would break.
Cinderella’s stepmother would not let her try the slipper on, but the prince saw her and said, “Let her also try on the slipper!”
The slipper fit her perfectly. The prince recognized her from the ball. He married Cinderella and together they lived happily ever after"
What part of the plot do these paragraphs fit in?
Resolution