Information about the strategy:
Written and oral summaries are very similar, so I combined them into one strategy. For a written summary, the students summarize what the reader just read. However, the reader is not retelling the events, they are reflecting what they thought and making connections to what they just read. An oral summary is the same thing as a written summary, but the students verbally summarize. A written or oral summary can be used for any content area. This strategy varies in length. Sometimes the summary is a few sentences and other times it is an essay. The summaries should note the title and author of the text. How this strategy can be used in a classroom: This strategy could be used as a formative assessment to see what the students comprehended from the passage they just read. The teacher would understand how much the students took from the passage and would be able to figure out where she or he would need to go with the next lesson. Another way way this strategy could be used in the classroom is as a summative assessment. The teacher could have the students write or verbalize an essay to determine how well the students comprehended the topic. I know this strategy, done as a summative assessment, was used in my intermediate classrooms many times. Writing standard:
There are two writing standards that summaries could fall under. These standards are W2 and W4. W2 is write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. W4 is produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
Research:
Summarizing helps students learn what the main ideas are of what they are reading. It also allows students to focus on words that are worthy of being remembered. Lastly, it allows students to focus on the important details of a larger text and ignore the other details. It helps students better comprehend what they are reading because they are focusing on the main ideas and supporting details of each passage. (Summarizing, n.d.). Video examples and explanations:
This video gives five easy tips on how to write a summary. This would be very useful to show students because the tips are helpful to the students. This video also gives you an example of how to use the tips with a text.
This video gives easy steps to how to write a summary. It also explains what a summary is and how to write a summary. This would be a great video to show students to introduce summarizing to students. The video have visualize that will help students understand what the video is talking about.
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Sources:
Miller, M., & Veatch, N. (2011). Strategies to Increase Comprehension. Literacy in context (LinC): choosing instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students grades 5-12 (). Boston: Pearson.
Summarizing. (n.d.). Reading Rockets. Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/summarizing
Miller, M., & Veatch, N. (2011). Strategies to Increase Comprehension. Literacy in context (LinC): choosing instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students grades 5-12 (). Boston: Pearson.
Summarizing. (n.d.). Reading Rockets. Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/summarizing