Reading Challenging Texts With Annotation & Close Reading

Tackling Academic Texts with Annotation & Close Reading
In this interactive one-hour class, high school students will learn essential strategies to comprehend and analyze academic texts with confidence.

📖 What Will Be Taught?

Ms. AJ will guide students through key reading strategies to enhance understanding, including:
✔️ Active Reading – Engaging with the text to improve focus and retention.
✔️ Annotation Techniques – Marking key ideas, questions, and themes.
✔️ Close Reading – Examining details for deeper comprehension.
✔️ Summarizing & Skimming – Identifying main ideas and filtering essential information.

🧑‍🏫 How Will I Teach?
✅ Step-by-step demonstrations of annotation and reading strategies.
✅ Guided practice with short academic texts.
✅ Engaging discussions to analyze key ideas and themes.

By the end of class, students will:
✔️ Apply annotation and close reading techniques to academic texts.
✔️ Improve comprehension of complex material.
✔️ Feel more confident tackling challenging readings in high school and beyond.

Join this high-impact session to build stronger high school reading comprehension, close reading, and academic text analysis skills! 📚