We've been close reading all year. We've started with text feature annotations and "think alouds" on the text (where the teacher orally shares thinking, reactions, questions, thoughts about what they are reading). Truly the "think aloud" is an example of the internal dialogue that good readers go through in their own minds. Just recently I've started releasing the kids to do their own annotations, and I was so happy with the results. We read an article on Presidents, discussed it, and pulled some information out. Then I gave them simple annotation symbols to follow. After, we shared a sentence that we annotated that surprised us, was important to us, one that had we had a question about (or wanted more information about), and one that we agreed with. I was so impressed with what they came up with! Can't wait to do more!
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