This document provides instructions for completing a KWL chart to prepare for reading about various historical topics like the Red Scare and Salem Witch Trials. It explains that the KWL chart has three columns: Know, Wonder, and Learn. The Know column is filled out before reading with prior knowledge. The Wonder column contains predictions and questions before reading. The Learn column is completed after reading to note new information learned. The document then details various annotation strategies and purposes to help understand texts, including asking questions, making inferences, relating content to one's own life, and showing metacognition.

1. KWL Chart
Know Wonder Learn
Warm up: Fill this
box with anything
you already know
about
Communism, The
Red Scare,
McCarthyism,
Salem Witch
Trials, or Puritans.
Look at the
articles and
predict/ preview
what you are
going to read...
what do you
wonder???
We will fill this
column in after
we read :)

2. Annotating
Markin’ Up the Text

3. Why Annotate?
Annotating helps us set a purpose for
reading.
Vs.

4. Purposes
What is the author’s purpose for writing?
How does this connect with my life?
What are the main ideas that the author is trying to
get across?
How does this relate to the real world?
How does this relate to another text?
What new information can I gain about this subject?
The possibilities are endless.

5. When annotating... look at TEXT FEATURES
to help you understand the text
Title
Headings
Illustrations
Graphic aids (diagram,
graph, timeline, table)
Photos
Captions
Sidebar
Author byline
Bold print
Definitions
What is the genre?:
Non-fiction (informational,
autobiography, biography)
Fiction (novel, short story,
poem, graphic novel, etc.)

6. Thinking
about
thinking..
..
Metacognition

7. Thinking + Annotating =
showing your metacognition
Ask Questions
What if....
I wonder
why?
How
come... ?

8. Other annotating options... to
show your metacognition
I infer....
The author wants to
show....
This relates to my
life... b/c...
Summarize what you read.
I don’t understand b/c...
This reminds me of...
This is similar to...
One conclusion I have is...
A historical time period/ event this
reminds me of is... b/c

11. When annotating...
Do
comment on something specific
react and share what you are
thinking
think about the author’s choices or
intentions

12. When annotating...
Don’t
Highlight or circle everything
Only state your opinion... also think
about the purpose you/we set

13. Annotating
Steps 1 + 2
1. Number the paragraphs!
2. Chunk paragraphs
“McCarthyism” - draw a line between all
3 paragraphs
“The Demons of Salem” - Chunk #1-2/
#3/ #4-5/ #6-8/ #9-10/#11/ #12-14
“Timebends” - Draw a line between
paragraphs 1 and 2

14. Annotating
Step 3 + 4:
3. Circle:
The Author’s name in each text.
Any IMPORTANT Text Features.
The MAIN IDEA of the text (OR write the main
idea at the top of the article)
4. Underline/Highlight
New things you learn about Salem, Puritans,
McCarthyism, Communism, Arthur Miller, etc.

15. Annotating
Step 5 + 6
5. Left Margin
Summarize what the author says in each
paragraph
Use less than 10 words!
6. Right Margins
Ask a Question
Draw a picture of what the author is saying
Use another metacognition strategy!