<p> Annotating Informational Text Handout</p><p>As you read any informational text (newspaper article, textbook, magazine article, brochure, credible website, etc.), try using some of these strategies to help you find the meaning in the text.</p><p>As you read your text, look for one or more of these factors:</p><p> Headings and subheadings  Lists  Diagrams and figures (these give you a brief overview of lots of information)  Special features (you might be tempted to skip these, but they’re often packed with interesting informational tid-bits)  Dates or places (especially in your social studies reading)  New vocabulary (you might find a lot of this in science or math, but also other subject areas)  Main Ideas  Supporting Information</p><p>The following is a list of Common Codes to be used at PHS</p><p> V—Important terminology  ?—Concept that needs further explanation or creates a question for the student  *--Information for the main idea/thesis statement with W.O.D.  +--Supporting details to support thesis  - --Details that refute thesis  TT—Text to text (connection to another form of information)  TW—Text to World (current events)  TS—Text to Self (connection to your life)</p><p>The following is a list of some techniques that PHS will use to annotate text:</p><p> Circle definitions and meanings.  How do YOU feel about…?  Write short summaries in the Why…? margin at the end of sub-units.  Info/data pattern(s)?  What’s being said?  Disagree with…?  What questions are being asked?  Pose YOUR OWN questions.  What is “the Forest?” the  Suppose that…? “trees?”  Bias in the document?  What are you thinking?</p>