4. ANNOTATING
• Highlight key words/phrases/sentences
• Connect ideas with lines or symbols
• Writing comments or questions in the margin
• Noting anything that seems noteworthy or
questionable
• Annotating forces you to read more than just the
surface
• It also creates a record of things you want to say (in
discussion/writing)
6. THINKING ABOUT HOW
THE TEXT WORKS
How does the text’s parts fit together?
What does it say?
Write a sentence that identifies each
paragraph. At the end, look to
patterns.
What does it do?
Identify the function of each
paragraph.
8. IDENTIFYING
PATTERNS
Patterns: Recurring words and their synonyms;
Repeated phrases, metaphors and other types of
sentences.
What is the writing strategy used most often:
Narration? Compare & Contrast? Etc.
9. ANALYZING THE
ARGUMENT
Argument: Claiming something and then offering
reasons and evidence as support for the claim.
Look closely at the argument the text makes.
Recognize all the claims.
Consider the support the text offers for those
claims.
How do you want to respond?