Highlight Notes

Highlight Notes let a student type a note to go with a highlight. Every time they mark a passage with the Highlighter, they have the option to add a note explaining why it matters, or anything that will help them remember it.

Notes are always attached to a highlight, never left on their own. They appear alongside the highlights in My Annotations, and they carry across when a student exports a page's highlights to a Google Doc.

• Captures the thinking behind the highlight, which is the part students usually lose between reading and writing
• Turns marking up a page into note-taking, without a separate document to manage
• Gives students who find extended writing hard a place to record a short thought at the moment they have it
• Makes a marked-up page usable weeks later, when the color alone no longer means anything

MTSS:

• Tier 1: A route into annotation and active reading for the whole class
• Tier 2: Supports students who need to externalize comprehension checks as they read

UDL Principles:

• Multiple means of action and expression: students record their thinking in short written notes rather than extended prose
• Multiple means of engagement: supports self-regulation by prompting students to say why something matters

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