Prediction
Annotation
Potpourri
QAR
CER
100

What readers already know about topics, words, or ideas in a text.

What is Prior Knowledge?

100

This symbol is used when you do not understand something.

What is ?

100

Writing that is based on real events, and real people, such as biography or history.

What is Nonfiction?

100

The answer is in one sentence of the text.

What is Right There?

100

A statement that can be argued is called this.

What is Claim?

200

Things that repeat in a text.

What is Patterns?

200

This symbol is used when you are surprised by something.

What is !

200

A type of figurative language that differs from the literal meaning of the words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).

What is Idiom?

200

The answer is in the text but you need to look at more than one sentence.

What is Think and Search?

200

Information from a text that supports or helps prove a claim.

What is Evidence?

300

Information revealed in illustrations or photographs.

What is Pictures?

300

This symbol is used for essential details.

What is * (stars)

300

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.

What is Personification?

300

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

What is Writer and Me?

300

An explanation of how the evidence supports the claim.

What is Reasoning?

400

Checking a Prediction by reading.

What is Proving?

400

This symbol is used for important events or ideas.

What is underlined

400

This form of figurative language indirectly refers to something without naming it directly. EG to wash your hands of something, or brush this off your shoulders.

What is Allusion?

400

Use you own knowledge to determine the answer.

What is On My Own?

400

CER stands for what?

Claim Evidence Reasoning

500

Name the 4P's of Prediction.

What are Prior Knowledge, Patterns, Pictures, and Proving?

500

Only for Social Studies, this annotation symbol is used for viewpoints.

What is circled

500

In literature, the relationship where one event makes another event happen, the driving plot, revealing character motivations, and developing themes like fate or morality. Authors using signal words like "because," "so," and "therefore"

What is Cause and Effect?

500

QAR stands for this.

What is Question Answer Relationship?

500

RACER stands for

Restate the question, Answer the question, Cite evidence, Explain the evidence, and Recap or Review the response.

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