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Summarizing: A Tool for Thought

Learn how to determine importance, find interesting and important details, and summarize effectively using T-Charts, anchor charts, and other strategies.

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Summarizing: A Tool for Thought

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  1. Summarizing: A Tool for Thought A simple and powerful presentation by Kathleen Alessi and Karen Butler

  2. Determine Importance

  3. Amazing Helen KellerInteresting ImportantDetails Information • Born 120 years ago • She loved riding horses • Her eyes are open but she is blind • Helen Keller was blind and deaf, but she didn’t let anything stand in her way. • She believed blind and deaf people could do almost anything. • She taught other deaf and blind people to read. Some kids may need to dictate their response. Questioning will help kids distinguish interesting from most important. “What makes you think that?” “How did you come up with that?” “Can you say more about that?”

  4. Your turn to try it!Read the short passage.Use sticky notes to take notes.Place your stick note on the T chart.

  5. Summarizing

  6. Summary Anchor Chart 1. Reread your notes on the topic. Make sure they are accurate and in your own words. 2.Think about the topic and the information that tells about it. 3. Put the notes in order-what comes first, second, third, etc. 4. Remember to tell what is important, but don’t tell too much.

  7. Let’s look at some real examples from real students!

  8. Another Strategy for Summarizing…Story Impressions Students will • Predict • Monitor and Clarify • Check Predictions • Summarize information from the story Example: A Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon and Chart paper

  9. Let’s look at some more real examples from real students!

  10. Summarizing using Write Toolsand Jot Dots • Step 1. NAME IT VERB IT BIG PICTURE • Step 2.Use Jot Dots to paraphrase and list big • ideas. Each Jot Dot should be about 5 words or less (page 135 in Write Tools)

  11. Name It Verb It Big Picture “A Bad Case of the Stripes” describes Camilla Cream’s embarrassment by David Shannon about being different and how she overcame it. Jot Dots • Camilla is embarrassed about liking beans • Camilla refuses to eat beans • Camilla gets a strange illness • Camilla eats beans and gets better • Camilla learns being herself is ok

  12. *Students need to know how to Determine Importance before they can Summarize.*T-Charts and Anchor Charts Can help students to Summarize.*Story Impressions and Name It, Verb It, Big Picture are strategies for Summarizing. Good bye and Happy Summarizing!! Kathleen Alessi and Karen Butler

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