Marking the Text

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Marking the Text
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Use a piece of blank paper to create your own
Piece of the Pie foldable.
Prereading What is Marking the Text?
Numbering Paragraphs What do ICircle?
Marking the Text
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Use a piece of blank paper to create your own
Piece of the Pie foldable.
What are Key Terms? What do I Underline?
What are Claims? Margin Marking
Summary
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What is Marking the Text?

• An active reading strategy that asks students to
  identify information in the text that is relevant
  (relates to) the reading purpose.
• It has 3 distinct marks
• 1) Numbering Paragraphs
• 2) Underlining
• 3) Circling
• USE PENCIL

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Prereading

• Survey the Text
• Make Predictions
• Mark unknown vocabulary with squiggly lines
• Read authors background information

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Numbering Paragraphs

• Before reading, each paragraph.
• Write the small near the paragraph
  indentation circle the .

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What do I Circle?

• Key Terms
• Names of People
• Names of Places
• Dates

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What are Key Terms?

• words or phrases that are
• - repeated
• - used in a unique way
• - defined by the author
• - central idea (s)
• - used to explain or represent an idea
• -relevant to the reading purpose

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What do I Underline?

• Underline information that is relevant (relates
  to the topic) to the reading purpose
• Exs evidence, definitions, explanations,
  descriptions, data/statistics
• Items you are going to (or could) use for quotes
  in your own writing.
• Underline an authors claim

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What is a claim?

• Statement(s) argued or stated by the author
• A claim can be found anywhere in the article
• A claim may not be directly written in the article

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What do I write in the Margins?

• 1. Visualize (non-linguistic representations)
• 2. Summarize (describe what author is doing)
• 3. Clarify (define key terms, paraphrase, etc)
• 4. Connect (how does it relate to me or world)
• 5. Respond (to ideas, arguments, claims, etc)
• 6. Question (what is author saying?, what do I
  understand, what is purpose, etc)
• 7. Chart the Text (what author is saying/doing)