Do you have your students annotate their readings? I was frustrated by their randomness and lack of connection to previous work or knowledge. I will share my assignments from this week where I hope they improve their note-taking.

To help my students, I often give them a question that they should be annotating evidence in the reading to answer. This gives them some direction on what is important in the document. It also doesn't take a lot of prep time to get ready which is nice. 

I have my students write annotations on post its or in margins. We call it bits n pieces. 

I have my students write annotations on post its or in margins. We call it bits n pieces.