Reading Strategy 4 – Collaborative Annotation

Instructional Strategy 4

Name:

Robert Lewis

Name of strategy:

Collaborative Annotation

Source (Where did this come from?):

Greece Central School District NY

Link to the strategy:

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/annolighting%20a%20text.htm

Give a thorough description of the strategy and how it will be implemented.

This strategy is going to be used to read a passage from some ancient Sogdian texts that were discovered in 1907 by a British archaeologist. The lesson requires previous introductory lessons on the Silk road and the people of Iran who were the Sogdians. The texts were written around 313 C.E. so they require a different method to completely understand them. This method that I decided to use was the Collaborative Annotation method which starts by having a student read the text and write comments about each section on the side of the text. When the student finishes doing this, he or she will get into a group of 3 or 4 students. The students will then pass the paper to the person on the left. They will read the notes and then make comments of their own about the comments. After they are done, the paper will be passed again to the person on the left continuing the process until the paper is back in the original owner’s hands. They will then be able to read these comments and might have a better understanding of the text that they read.

Explain what part of the standard course of study is addressed by this activity.

Grade 7 Social Studies

Competency Goal 4 The learner will identify significant patterns in the movement of people, goods, and ideas over time and place in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Objectives

4.01 Describe the patterns of and motives for migrations of people, and evaluate the impact on the political, economic, and social development of selected societies and regions.

4.02 Identify the main commodities of trade over time in selected areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia and evaluate their significance for the economic, political, and social development of cultures and regions.

4.03 Examine key ethical ideas and values deriving from religious, artistic, political, economic, and educational traditions, as well as their diffusion over time, and assess their influence on the development of selected societies and regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Explain why you think this strategy will work and how this strategy help your students learn?

The text given to them is not easily read by the average student and will need the assistance of others to interpret what the author is saying. This strategy meets those needs by allowing people to make comments about what the other student is thinking. This reminds of bloging in a sense. I’m sure their would be a way to set up the blog with this information and achieve the same results with maybe more than just 4 references to a section of text. The students may change their initial opinion after they read what the other students have thought about the text.

Silk road Sogdian texts

http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/sogdlet.html

An example of the strategy

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/frostmodel.PDF