Original PromptCreate a Florida standards aligned lesson for 7th grade reading that teaches students to effectively annotate a literary text.
This learning resource focuses on enhancing deep reading skills through annotation. It outlines specific learning objectives, emphasizing the application of annotation symbols to identify literary elements and summarize themes in texts. The resource provides an example narrative about a character named Elara, who discovers the significance of a grandfather clock left to her. This narrative serves as a basis for students to practice using annotation symbols for questions, connections, and literary elements, encouraging them to analyze characters' motivations and thematic elements of the text. The document includes guided practice tasks and areas for student annotations to reinforce their understanding, as well as reflective tasks that prompt students to synthesize their insights about the text's central theme.