In this Facebook Live tutorial, I explain what annotating is, why it’s effective and I show students how to annotate properly so that they improve their understanding of comprehension texts and ultimately develop the skills necessary to improve their marks.
What does it mean to annotate a text?
Annotating is when readers make notes, highlight and understand key facts, information, devices and details in the piece of text that they’re reading.
Quick takeaways from this tutorial:
Annotating is beneficial because it can enable you to:
Pay closer attention to facts, figures and important statistic information
Track the character or author’s thoughts and feelings
Answer questions more clearly and thoroughly
Avoid making careless mistakes
Improve deduction and inference skills
WATCH the tutorial below
