Reading Class

Week 8
Highlighting and Annotating

Tablo Omer Qadir

Centre of Intensive English Programme
F19 Spring Class
Komar University of Science and Technology
 What is annotating?
Marking and taking little notes in a text.

What is highlighting?

Using colorful highlighters to trigger the most

important points.
 Before we start

Never use highlighting and annotation if

the book or material is not yours!
Ways and reasons for annotating texts
To indicate the most important ideas
and supporting points like examples
and statistics.
To draw Connections between ideas
To mark Important Definitions and Terminologies
To indicate steps in a process
To help review and remember
Highlighting Texts
Good for
!Use your own style
 Ways and Reasons for highlighting texts

Highlighting main ideas with one color and the supporting

details with another color, then you can summarize the text
easily!
 Highlighting the vocabulary
and its key words in a context.

The girl was very melancholic, she had

tears in her eyes and was sitting alone.