The teacher in this video describes what summarizing is and how to use sum it up for two dollars as an activity of how to sum the story up. This is when every word a student writes cost ten cents and they only have two dollars (twenty words). This teaches students how to summarize a large reading/text into few words. I like this strategy and think it is a good one to use with students.
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This talks about how using mind maps can help student summarize their readings which lead to increasing comprehension skills. I believe that we should use different activities for a strategy and mind mapping is a good one for summarizing
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Definition: To recap the main ideas of a text in your own words. Also called the gist.
Purpose: To choose the main idea(s), key points, and aspects of the text that would help someone else know what the text was about. Reduce the text to their bare essentials. This helps student take a whole chapter, book, story and remember and recap into a few sentence the main idea of the whole story.
Tips:
Purpose: To choose the main idea(s), key points, and aspects of the text that would help someone else know what the text was about. Reduce the text to their bare essentials. This helps student take a whole chapter, book, story and remember and recap into a few sentence the main idea of the whole story.
Tips:
- Use different summarize activities (GIST, sum it up for $2, graphic organizers, etc.)
- Choose a specific topic (author point of view, setting, main point, etc.) to sum
- Give students directions for summarize
- Model summarizing
How the strategy may be used in a lesson:
Lesson 1:
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Lesson 2:
Writing Component:
Students can write their summarize in a GIST, such as 20 words or less, or write something such as the graphic organizer to the right. When we summarize something we will sometimes speak, but most the time it includes writing. When students write it down it also helps them remember what happened in the text. The writing component of this strategy allows students integrate writing and reading. After students read a text, possible discuss the text, then this strategy usually incorporates writing, such as a simple GIST or graphic organizer.
Resources/Research:
Jones- The reason teacher use summarizing is to help students “focus on the heart of the matter” (Jones, 2007). Teachers want their students to capture the main message or idea. The reason we use summarizing as a reading comprehension strategy is because we want students to pull out main ideas of the text, focus on specific details that make the text make sense, break down the larger ideas, and write a GIST or short and simple summary of the text. This strategy helps students understand the big picture of a story and not focus so much on the small details.
Block and Parris- Their research states what comprehension strategies should be taught, how, and why. It states that every year students do and need to learn, recap, and use 45 different strategies for reading and reading comprehension. One of those they state is summarizing. It states that we need to use strategies that allow students to understand he content and promote their thinking. This research also stress the importance of teachers understanding how to teach, model, and scaffold this strategy as well as any reading comprehension strategy.
Students can write their summarize in a GIST, such as 20 words or less, or write something such as the graphic organizer to the right. When we summarize something we will sometimes speak, but most the time it includes writing. When students write it down it also helps them remember what happened in the text. The writing component of this strategy allows students integrate writing and reading. After students read a text, possible discuss the text, then this strategy usually incorporates writing, such as a simple GIST or graphic organizer.
Resources/Research:
Jones- The reason teacher use summarizing is to help students “focus on the heart of the matter” (Jones, 2007). Teachers want their students to capture the main message or idea. The reason we use summarizing as a reading comprehension strategy is because we want students to pull out main ideas of the text, focus on specific details that make the text make sense, break down the larger ideas, and write a GIST or short and simple summary of the text. This strategy helps students understand the big picture of a story and not focus so much on the small details.
Block and Parris- Their research states what comprehension strategies should be taught, how, and why. It states that every year students do and need to learn, recap, and use 45 different strategies for reading and reading comprehension. One of those they state is summarizing. It states that we need to use strategies that allow students to understand he content and promote their thinking. This research also stress the importance of teachers understanding how to teach, model, and scaffold this strategy as well as any reading comprehension strategy.