Utilizing Annotation Strategies

Lesley Hilts’ Intervention

  • Utilize specific annotation strategies (codes, underlining, commenting) to identify the claim and support in a text.

Prompt/Task

Reading/writing assignments: Read and annotate  a nonfiction, grade appropriate text; identify the author’s claim and the evidence to support it.

Design Overview

  • Pre-test (November)
  • 9-10 text: Basic English (two classes) English One (Five classes); English Two (four classes). 11-12 text: English Three (three classes); EWU 170: Intro to Literature (one class); Bridge to College (three classes).
  • English Department group assessment of pre-tests including the creation of a reliable rubric and anchor texts.
  • Intervention (series of lessons to teach annotation, rhetorical strategies, claims and evidence/elaboration)
  • Post-test (February)
  • 9-10 text: Basic English (two classes) English One (Five classes); English Two (four classes). 11-12 text: English Three (three classes); EWU 170: Intro to Literature (one class); Bridge to College (three classes).
  • English Cohort group assessment of pre-tests including the creation of a reliable rubric and anchor texts.

Population

  • LAP and IEP students
  • Honors students
  • General Education students