6th+grade+Annotating+Text+Lesson

**Active Reading Strategy** Mr. Williams - SEM
 * 6th Grade Annotating Text**


 * Purpose of Lesson:** Active reading is reading that will help the student reach better understanding; it combines some type of writing with their reading. In this lesson we are going to us annotating to help students gain understanding of the material. The strategy of annotating will give the students codes that they can use to quickly document what they are thinking about while they are reading. This will help show what connections your students may be making in their reading assignments.


 * Materials:**pencil, paper, article that can be written on (each student has a copy), annotating text code sheet.
 * [|Code sheet.pdf]**


 * Teacher Notes:** Using a text that your students can relate to or one they would find interesting will make this assignment be more successful. The code sheet for annotating the text was taken from The Write Tools workshop copyright 2006.


 * Duration of Lesson:** This lesson will probable take one class period to complete, if you have already talked about the basics of annotating.

Depending on the age of your students and their experience with coding, you may need to do some modeling of what is expected of them. Once the students are ready to complete the task, have them read the article from beginning to end marking all appropriate sections (off to the side) with a code. The final part to this lesson is made up of your students discussing as a class. They should talk about what codes or categories they used and what they were thinking about when they used that code. This discussion will show what your students relate well to and what they will need to work on. Having students that can relate to text on many different levels will make them better readers and writers.
 * Lesson:** Each student should have a copy of a provided reading sample and an annotating text code sheet. The students are then asked to read and mark any text that fits in with one of the annotating codes. Each code should be explained and talked about before the students are expected to use them. Remember that the code handout is just a partial list of possible annotating text codes. Students can make up their own codes as long as they have a key that tells you what each code means.