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HUG Your Text

HUG Your Text. The Highlighting Strategy. Created by Mary Barrett, SIM Professional Developer Minneapolis, MN Presented by Pamela Leitzell, SIM Professional Developer Maryville, TN pamleitzell@earthlink.net. Hugging the text will help students …. Activate their thinking

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HUG Your Text

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  1. HUG Your Text The Highlighting Strategy Created by Mary Barrett, SIM Professional Developer Minneapolis, MN Presented by Pamela Leitzell, SIM Professional Developer Maryville, TN pamleitzell@earthlink.net

  2. Hugging the text will help students … • Activate their thinking • Focus on main ideas • Think about supporting information

  3. The Highlighting Strategy Steps: HUG H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes

  4. Step 1: Highlight Main Ideas • maximum 20% of text • one line per section • 8 lines on average page • key concepts only • worth re-reading

  5. Step 2: Underline Details • key words • steps in a process • definitions • names / dates

  6. MEMORY DEVICE FOR DETAILS What details are important enough to remember? F I R E S F acts I ncidents R easons E xamples S tatistics

  7. Step 3: Generate other notes H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes Great to do in small groups

  8. Questions Step 3: Generate other notes H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes questions

  9. Opinions Step 3: Generate other notes H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes opinions

  10. Predictions Step 3: Generate other notes H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes predictions

  11. Connections to personal experiences Step 3: Generate other notes H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes connections to personal experiences

  12. Step 3: Generate Other Notes • Questions • Predictions • Connections to real life or experiences • Summarize text • Notes • Number steps • Create charts of complex information • Create visuals • ID location of ideas - sources • definitions • examples • names/dates • Other important ideas

  13. No Highlighters??? No Problem!

  14. The Highlighting Strategy Steps: BUG Adaptation B oxmain ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes

  15. “Wandering In The Wilds” Let’s try a passage…

  16. WANDERING IN THE WILDS Backpacking offers freedom found in no other type of wilderness travel. However, you must know what to expect when you hike off into the wilderness. There will be no piped water or shelters to use. There will be no tables to eat from and no grills to hold your pots and pans. There will be few trail signs to guide you. You must know how to follow a map. You will be on your own. Still, there are countless places you can go. Try an overnight trip to a mountain or stream. Follow an unmarked trail that seems inviting. A trial run will help to tone up muscles and show up mistakes in plans. During a short trip, you will not suffer too badly if something has been left at home. Experienced backpackers pride themselves on being able to travel light. With many, weight saving is a game. some cut towels in half and saw the handles off toothbrushes to save ounces. They measure out just the right amount of food needed and put it in plastic bags. Plastic bags are lighter than cardboard. There are dozens of tricks to save ounces that add up to pounds. There will be times when it is easier to find the main idea, and times when it is easier to find details. Sometimes the main idea isn’t explicitly written in the paragraph. If students highlight key words, give it to them. Once in a while the main idea will be explicitly stated in the first sentence!

  17. Let’s try some other highlighting activities …

  18. Highlighting Activity #1 Read the passage below. After reading each paragraph complete step #1 of the Highlighting Strategy

  19. Highlighting Activity #2 • Read the excerpt from the Alliance for Excellent Education Fact Sheet, September 2007 titled “Dropouts in America” • Complete the steps of the highlighting strategy for paragraph #1 • Do the same for paragraph #2

  20. A Student’s Fantasy…. Don't need it!

  21. Highlighting can help bring meaning to text …

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