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Grades 4-12 | ML Levels 3-5 | HANDOUT

Determine note-worthy text details

Document the whispers of the Thinking Voice

Readers actively engage with texts.

Introduce the Reading Voice & Thinking Voice.

Comprehension Voice Signs | English | Spanish

Provide students mini-signs
Color | Black & White | Spanish

Record the Thinking Voice via note-taking.

Notice & note what the text says and means.

Adjust annotation expectations for struggling readers.

View a lesson where the teacher scribes reader thinking.

Grade 5 mini-lesson
Week 2 | Day 10

Note-taking vs. Annotating

Identify 4 reasons
to take notes.

Mini-Lesson Resource | WhyLighter Pen

PDF Template | Color | Black & White

PDF Template | Color | Black & White

Google Slide

FigJam

FigJam

Simplify annotation with marks, codes, & abbreviations.

Introduce the purpose of annotation.

Tracks in the Snow, Wong Herbert Yee

Annotate based on
the reading purpose.

Go beyond Highlighting—
expect Why-lighting.

Return to annotations
after reading.

Read across multiple sources

Expertise does not come from reading one text.

Organize information
collected from sources.

Teacher Resource | Taking Notes

PDF | Google Slide

Collect text details organized by source.

Record thoughts about multiple texts. | Lesson Resource

Synthesize & cite evidence from multiple sources.

Code texts to identify new, additional, & contradictory details.

Mark new and contradictory information.

View a grade 4 lesson.
PDF | Smartboard

Separate information by source & perspective.

Prepare students for on-screen reading.