This document provides guidelines for how to annotate a text. It recommends: 1. Reading with a pen or pencil and marking important passages, main ideas, details, and reactions in the margins or with notes. Developing a consistent annotation code or symbols to use. 2. Annotating helps capture the key concepts and details, reduces the needed information for review, and strengthens reading comprehension. 3. Previewing the text first by looking at title, author, publication details to help understand context before annotating. Having a conversation with the text by asking questions and commenting is also important.