How to annotate a narrative text

Step 1: Highlight or circle words you don’t know. Look them up!

Step 2: Highlight key ideas as you read

Step 3: Write questions in the margins that you have

Step 4: Label the central idea or main idea

To practice annotating , go to www.readworks.org for reading passages and comprehension questions.

Using SQ4R to read and take notes ?

1. SURVEY the chapter. This means look at the headings and graphics. You don’t need to write anything down.

2. Write QUESTIONS for each heading on the left side of the paper. For example if the heading is: Achievements of the Roman Empire….write “What are the Achievements of the Roman Empire?”

3. READ the information paragraph at a time.

4. RECORD the information that you found on the right side of your paper.

5. Recite the information that you read in the paragraph. SAY IT OUT LOUD!!!!

6. Go on to the next paragraph.

7. Once you finish the reading in its entirety, REVIEW it.

Context Clues

What do you do when you come across a word you don’t know? You should use the other words in the sentence to be clues.

How?

Practice using these Context Clues Worksheets that are scaffolded (get harder as you do well).

Literary Terms or Figurative Language

Author’s use different techniques to allow the reader a deeper meaning of their writing.

Some examples include: metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, and so on.

Here are some poems and short stories to practice your terms.