Selective Highlighting:

Equivalent to underlining, and students can add margin notes if they wish.

Main ideas:

	Read through the selection.
	Reread and begin highlighting.
	Do not highlight whole sentences or paragraphs.
	Choose key ideas from the sentences.
	Identify main ideas with different color highlights (Power Highlight).
	Develop topics for ideas and write in note box, linked from highlighted main idea.
	Use the various colors of highlighters to identify main ideas from details (ex: blue & red).
	When a main point is not stated, write your own in a linked text box.

 
Highlighting and added text box.

To Power Highlight

	Block/select a portion of the text (main idea).
	Choose the add highlight option.

To change the color of the highlight

	Block/select a previously selected section of text.
	Choose the edit highlight option.
	Choose a new highlight color.

 

Power Notes:

Power Notes are a method of allowing the student to differentiate between main ideas and details (Miller 1985; Sparks 1982), and while the note method is based on an outline format of Power1 - the Main Idea, Power2 - Support for Power1, and Power3 - Support for Power2, this method has also been done by underlining with identification of the Powers.
With an eBook students can do the equivalent of Power Notes through Power Highlighting, where they highlight main idea with one color and subtopic/subcategories or supporting information with another color(s).

Noting: opinion/proof; hypothesis/proof; problem/solution:

Read through the passage then highlight in one color the main concept (opinion, hypothesis, or problem) and then highlight, in another color, the supporting material (proof, solution) [Power Highlighting]. Then go back to the main concept, highlight it again, but this time select the option to create a text box. In the text box write a summary of what the author concluded/stated and his/her supporting material.

Sticky-Note discussions:

With paper copies, students read their text and then using Sticky Note paper they write questions, comments, or any other note, and then place the sticky note at that place in the book.  With eBooks, after students read a passage they write notes linked to specific sections they want to talk about. These “notes” may be questions, humor, examples, concept development, etc.

Creating a Sticky-Note in the eBook:

	Select a portion of the text that the student wishes to comment on.
	From the menu select the add text box option.
	Type in the comment into the text box.
	To finish just click anywhere outside the text box.

 
Added text box.