Stop Highlighting Everything: A Practical Guide to Teaching Annotation Without Students Highlighting the Entire Page

Stop Highlighting Everything: A Practical Guide to Teaching Annotation Without Students Highlighting the Entire Page is a complete, classroom-ready system for one of the most commonly assigned, least often actually taught ELA skills. Inside: 10 chapters covering why students default to highlighting everything (or nothing), a simple 9-symbol annotation key students can actually remember, a real script for introducing it on day one, a full before-and-after modeling passage with the reasoning behind every mark, a gradual release from guided to partner to fully independent practice, and how to adapt the system for novels, nonfiction, and test prep. Plus a full set of printables — an annotation key card, cut-and-use bookmarks, a practice passage bank, and exit tickets — so it’s ready to teach starting tomorrow, not just something to read.