Annotation Guide, ELL and ESL students, reading comprehension, visual learners

Annotation Guide, ELL and ESL students, reading comprehension, visual learners Introducing a powerful tool that combines visual and written elements, perfect for enhancing language learning for ELL and ESL students.

My essay alternatives reduce cheating and plagiarism while providing a more creative assessment approach. Plus, they do not require huge amounts of marking – so it’s easy for teachers to manage their workload during busy periods like the end of the semester.

• Reduce cheating and plagiarism

• Spend less time marking essays and more time giving helpful feedback

• Capture students’ ideas more effectively and engage them in learning

• Help your visual learners understand concepts

• Create happier and more engaged students

• Save the weekends for your family and friends

HERE ARE TWO ESSAY ALTERNATIVES!!

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✺✺ANNOTATION & CLOSE READING

ChatGPT SOLUTIONS

amazing examples, instructions for teachers and students

Using a yellow highlighter has become an annotation staple for high school students. Is this the best way to mark up a textbook or novel? Studies have shown that highlighters hinder retention and comprehension. Simple highlighting encourages a passive reading style rather than an active one. Students do not engage critically with the text when annotating with a simple highlighter. They are trying to absorb it all without really understanding it. So what is the alternative? A better way to annotate is to try my Interpretive Note-taking/Annotation, where a series of suggestions prompt students.

This close reading/annotation product encourages students to take annotation to the next level. This assignment is perfect for assessing their reading comprehension and students retain what they learn. I find this assignment rewarding for my students – a helpful way to study, a unique assignment, and a way to engage visual learners. I am always surprised by their work. A final bonus is that my students’ grades increased by 30% after using this assignment when preparing for exams.

Use with any text and includes student examples.

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INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT ARE THE FOLLOWING:

✺ 18 INDIVIDUAL PROMPTS IN SLIDES AND PRINT.

✺ 18 GROUP PROMPTS IN SLIDES AND PRINT.

✺ 26 LITERARY TERMS OR RHETORICAL DEVICES LISTED AND DEFINED IN SLIDES AND PRINT.

✺ INSTRUCTIONS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.

✺ 15 PAGES OF STUDENT EXAMPLES! Examples are from my own classes with permission. I find examples help students understand your expectations. The examples are from Genesis One, Two, and Three, and Alexander Pope’s “Eloisa to Abelard.” I have used this poem for several years and the results were outstanding.  My students worked on The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as well as the poem. The poem is included here, but it is not factored into the price. 

✺ A link to file for students to use interactively through Classroom™ or other online programs.  

✺ Editable instructions for students when using the interactive version.

✺ Information on Google Slides™ for teachers and students.

✺ POPE’S “ELOISA TO ABELARD” IS INCLUDED WITH LINE NUMBERS. 

The poem is a perfect text to annotate! It is here for convenience’s sake. It is not factored into the price.

⚫⚫ INCLUDED IN THE VISUAL NOTE-TAKING PRODUCT ARE THE FOLLOWING:

In all of my first-year undergraduate classes I employ Visual Notetaking as a way to engage my students in the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. I always find this assignment rewarding for my students - a helpful way to study, a different type of assignment, a way to engage visual learners, and I am always surprised by their work.

In order for your students to excel in this activity, they need to see examples and understand how they will be graded. Provided here is a beautiful rubric for visual notetaking using visual notetaking. Furthermore, there are several examples from my own lectures.

Included in this product are the following:

Visual essays offer a refreshing, creative outlet for students to showcase their knowledge and understanding, making them ideal post-testing and end-of-the-year activities. They perfectly combine critical thinking with artistic expression, ensuring a meaningful, engaging, and unique experience for students to demonstrate their learning.

Moreover, cheating has unfortunately become an ongoing issue in students’ education. With the development of essay generators like ChatGPT, it is too easy for students to acquire quick and plagiarized essays. The visual essay is a great alternative.

Research has shown that visual aids stimulate learning and help students process, organize, and understand information more effectively. Visual essays, in particular, can facilitate complex ideas and new ways of thinking, leading to higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Moreover, visual essays prepare students for the real world by developing their visual and communication skills, which are essential in various professional fields. On top of that, they are a perfect way to teach figurative language, as this assignment works best with texts that employ figurative elements.

INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT:

⭐ NEW: Guide to Teaching Visual Essays

⭐ NEW: Visual Essay Assignment Instructions for teachers and students

⭐ NEW: Difference between One-Pagers and Visual Essays

⭐ NEW: Interactive version of Visual Essays

⭐ NEW: Detailed write-up for a Visual Essay on Nietzsche, along with the image

⭐ NEW: Example of how students demonstrate understanding of philosophical concepts through visual representation

⭐ Detailed Rubric

⭐ Information on ChatGPT and AI essay generation is the new reality 

⭐ Student examples—I use student examples from previous semesters to help my class understand my expectations. I have included 12 examples from my lectures on various Great Books: Nietzsche, Plato, and Thucydides. I have some TpT products that cover the same or similar material used during my lectures for these projects—see the last slide for details. 

⭐ Two amazing examples from a teacher in Florida.

⭐ Seven examples of visuals done during a Socratic Seminar.

⭐ Images from the library display at my University. This year, I was asked to give a talk on Visual Essays at my University’s event, Celebrate! Teaching and Learning (“an event for faculty, staff, and students to share significant moments, or sources of inspiration, from their teaching and learning experiences at the University”). 

⭐ Information on Google Slides for teachers and students

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