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How to handle book annotations when multiple classes share the same copies

When students write in shared books, notes from earlier classes crowd the margins and interfere with the next periods. Sticky notes seem like a solution, but they easily fall out of journals and lose student work.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

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    Having students keep a separate reading diary or journal for notes
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    Printing off specific passages or important scenes for students to annotate
  3. 3
    Having students initial their annotations or use different colors per class

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/Teachers2 people · September 2026

Sure, they can write in these books, but if my 1st period does that, then by the time it gets to my last period, there's going to be a fair amount of coopting what's already there.source ↗

Dassine · r/Teachers · 1 upvotes

The post it’s are great in theory but I tried post its in their journals one year and the things just fall out left and right.source ↗

SeriousAd4676 · r/Teachers

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