7.6.E
The Standard
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students capture their thinking while reading, listening, or viewing. They choose notes, marks, quick writing, or visuals that identify key ideas, evidence, questions, and connections.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students record key ideas, evidence, questions, and connections while reading, listening, or viewing. Their notes or visuals clearly help them explain and remember the source.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may copy full sentences or highlight nearly everything instead of selecting useful details. They may treat drawings as decoration rather than showing an idea, question, or connection.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article and ask them to mark one key idea, one supporting detail, and one question. Then have them explain one mark in writing.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a short article, sticky notes, and highlighters to label key ideas, evidence, questions, and connections.
After a short video, ask students to write: Which detail changed or strengthened your thinking, and why?
Play Annotation Relay, where teams rotate through paragraphs and add a summary, question, connection, or useful detail.
Have students annotate a school announcement and create a simple visual showing the action students need to take.
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Related Standards
- 6.6.E
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
- 3.7.E
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
- 4.7.E
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
- 8.6.E
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
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