Teaching your students to annotate text is an important reading skill and reading technique, as well a life-long skill. Annotating text is essential to becoming an active reader, and it helps with reading comprehension, fluency, and other important reading skills.*Teaching students to close read is one of the major components of the Common Core, and teaching students to do it correctly, is at times, a challenge.*In this bundle, I tried to simplify the annotation process with clear-cut directions