Shiloh Middle School
Media Center Updates
December 2016
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Website: http://shilohmiddlemediacenter.onmycalendar.com/
Location: 4285 Shiloh Road, Snellville, GA, United States
Phone: 770.736.4572
Twitter: @GeneralsConnect
Beyond the Yellow Highlighter: Teaching Annotation Skills to Improve Reading Comprehension
Excerpt By Carol Porter-O’Donnell
Annotating is a writing-to-learn strategy for use while reading or rereading. Annotating helps readers reach a deeper level of engagement and promotes active reading. It makes the reader’s “dialogue with the text” (Probst) a visible record of the thoughts that emerge while making sense of the reading. Most importantly, annotating requires students to read with a focus!
Ms. Bonaby is offering annotating workshops to all SMS teachers and students. She enjoyed facilitating a reading workshop for Ms. Benson's social studies class and would like more opportunities to incorporate reading workshops into interdisciplinary units.
If you would like more information about annotating and would like for Ms. Bonaby to facilitate an annotation workshop, please complete a collaboration form on her eClass page ( Media Center Professional Development).
Reading with a purpose
Interacting with the text
Answering Reading Comprehension Questions
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