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Hypothes.is is a great tool for annotating web pages and PDFs. It is premised on the concept of social annotation allowing students to annotate content collaboratively. Collaborative annotation, as stated by Hypothes.is, "makes reading active, visible, and social, enabling students to engage with their texts, teachers, ideas, and each other in deeper, more meaningful ways." 
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Critical reading--active engagement and interaction with texts--is essential to your academic success at Harvard, and to your intellectual growth. Research has shown that students who read deliberately retain more information and retain it longer. Your college reading assignments will probably be more substantial and more sophisticated than those you are used to from high school. The amount of reading will almost certainly be greater. College students rarely have the luxury of successive re-readings of material, either, given the pace of life in and out of the classroom.
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The scheme has been approved by the National Foundation for Education Research (NfER) and Oxford University Press have now aligned their reading levels to this criterion scheme. Also (did we mention?) the scale is free to download as a PDF along with a teachers guide (see links below), which gives a clear and concise introduction to Big Reading and the key strategies used.
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Reading is reading. By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another.
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Here are some of the key tools I would recommend to use with your kids and students to improve their reading comprehension skills.
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The Common Core emphasizes the importance of nonfiction text. Understanding text features are an important part of helping readers determine what is important to the text.
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