When I start teaching close reading strategies, I ask students to "talk to the text." Which means, I ask them to write their metacognitive thoughts all over the text. (Learn more about "talking to the text" HERE). I had students practice with poems and short stories, allowing them to put pencil to paper to share their thinking. But what do we do when students cannot write on the text?
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What is talking to the text? Simply stated, it is asking students to have a conversation with the text. They will be giving their thoughts right back to the words on the page, leaving their thoughts, ideas, questions, comments, and light bulb moments all over the passage. This is very similar to text annotations and is an integral part of teaching those close reading strategies.
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