Test Description

1. School-wide Annotation Guides
Strategies to Unify Your School

2. In the last installment of
CoreStand’s school-wide
annotation guides, we
looked at Cornell
Notes as a possible
answer. In this slideshow,
we will take a look at
CoreStand’s own Double-
Sided Journal.

3. The Common Core State Standards
have made clear the importance of
using textual evidence to support
argumentation. The Double-Sided
Journal is a literacy strategy that helps
support this reality, while also
allowing flexibility to meet other
standard-based learning. Let’s take a
look…

4. Paraphrases,
summaries or
quotes from text
are recorded in
the left column.
– For lessons
emphasizing
textual
evidence,
quotes are
recommended.

5. Analysis of the
paraphrase,
summary, or quote
occurs in the right
column.
– The analysis
could be for
research,
integrating
knowledge, or to
highlight details
related to craft
and structure.

6. Note that each
column relates to a
particular type of
Common Core
State Standard(or
standards) you may
be addressing
within your lesson
planning.

7. Due to the versatility of this
annotation guide, it becomes even
more important that we effectively
model this strategy, and lift
scaffolds as students
increase their
understanding of the
tool.

8. • For more information on how to
implement this annotation guide
effectively, head over to our website at
www.corestand.com
• Download the double-sided journal
template directly from this link.