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Nonfiction Annotations: Taking Notes While You Are Reading

This document provides guidance on how to take insightful notes through annotations while reading nonfiction texts. It recommends summarizing passages, making inferences and highlighting evidence, explaining how titles connect to texts, and making connections between different texts. It also suggests annotating text structures, vocabulary by using context clues or dictionaries, and areas of confusion. The document advises against simple positive or negative comments and highlights without explanations.

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Nonfiction Annotations: Taking Notes While You Are Reading

This document provides guidance on how to take insightful notes through annotations while reading nonfiction texts. It recommends summarizing passages, making inferences and highlighting evidence, explaining how titles connect to texts, and making connections between different texts. It also suggests annotating text structures, vocabulary by using context clues or dictionaries, and areas of confusion. The document advises against simple positive or negative comments and highlights without explanations.

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Nonfiction

Annotations
Taking Notes While You Are Reading
Annotations are written notes that show you are
thinking about and engaging with the text.

Insightful Annotations
1. Summarize a section or paragraph and highlight
supporting details.
2. Make an inference and highlight the supporting
details.
3. Explain how the title connects to the text.
4. Make text to self-text-world connections.
5. Explain how a text feature (maps, pictures,
charts) connects to the passage.
6. Mark areas of confusion and writing an “I
wonder…” question.
7. Clarify what an author really means when using
figurative language.
8. Identify and label text structures such as cause/effect; problem/solution; compare/contrast;
steps in a procedure; chronological.

Vocabulary Annotations
1. Circle an unfamiliar word, highlight context clues in the text, and write inferred definition in the
margin.
2. Use word-whacking strategy. Identify base word, Greek/Latin roots, prefixes, and/or suffixes
(affixes) to construct meaning of a word. Write the definition of circled word in the margin.
3. Use a dictionary to look up a word. Select the definition that aligns with how the word is used in
context of the text. Write the definition in the margin.

Stay Away From


1. I like this.
2. I don’t like this.
3. This confuses me.
4. Circling a word and leaving it.
5. Highlighting details without annotations.
6. Only annotating the text feature. You must annotate text details, too.
7. Using symbols or emoticons (smiley faces, stars. question marks, exclamation points) because
they do not show that you read the text.

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