Annotating
What is the purpose of annotating?
To help you better understand the text
What should you do the night before a test?
Get a good night's sleep and eat breakfast
Bringing your chromebook to school every day is a necessity. Define "necessity"
Being required or very important
The sequence of events within the story
Plot
An educated guess based on your background knowledge and what the text says
Inference
Explain one strategy you can use for annotating a text that is on the screen/Computer
Answers may vary
Looking at the words and phrases around an unfamiliar word is called using...
Using Context Clues
Jim had a habit of being deceitful, so it is hard for his wife to trust anything he says. Define "deceitful"
to lie or mislead someone. guilty
Compare & Contrast
A single row of text in a poem
line
The process of breaking up the text into smaller pieces is called
Chunking or sectioning
When adding your gist, it should only be 1-3 sentences. Remember: EVERY MINUTE COUNTS!
When answering a multiple choice question you can use this test taking feature.
Cross out/ Strike out incorrect answers
Don't dawdle- we are already late! Define "dawdle".
How the text or author's ideas grow or change over time
reveal
The central or most important thought the author wants to convey in the text
central idea/main idea
The online annotation strategy we use in 6th grade ELA
T.A.C.T
When answering questions on a test, begin by answering the ______ questions first
Easiest
We should affiliate with those who inspire us. Define "affiliate"
to be attached or connected to
Language that creates an image using the senses and figures of speech
Figurative language
A short summary of the text, that captures the main idea
gist
List each element of the T.A.C.T. strategy
T=Title
A= Annotation
C= Challenging Words
T= Tracking
How many hours do you have to complete the ELA EOG?
3
Pace yourself and watch your timing!
During class Ms. Williams made us take a copious amount of notes. Afterwards, her hand hurt. Define "copious"
Abundant in supply. Many, a lot
The author's feelings of the subject of their own writing
Tone
The process of breaking something down to better understand it
analyze