Text coding is a strategy used to help students keep track of thinking while they are reading. Students use a simple coding system to mark the text and record what they are thinking either in the margins or on post-it notes. As students make connections, self-question, and respond to what they reading, they are self-monitoring their comprehension and enhancing long term understanding. The codes help students name and remember a particular thinking strategy and track the thinking throughout the text. Following are options for students to use while coding text.
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Symbol
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Meaning
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T-S
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Text-to-self connection
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T-T
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Text-to-text connection
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T-W
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Text-to-world connection
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V
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Visualize or make a picture in my head
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P
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Predict
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I
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Infer (read between the lines)
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2+2
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Synthesize (put together)
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!
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Important
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?
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Question: I wonder; I don’t understand; or Puzzles me
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+
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New information (clarify)
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X
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I thought differently
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=
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Reminds me of…
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ü
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Confirms what I thought
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from The Collaborative for Teaching and Learning
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