Skim and Scoop Strategy

2. Skim and Scoop Strategy

3. Skim and Scoop Strategy Learning Objectives • Develop strategies for reading passages efficiently and effectively • Distinguish between the main ideas and details in a passage Lesson 3.3

4. Skim and Scoop Strategy Module 1 Metacognitive Activator Lesson 3.3

5. Skim and Scoop Strategy Today, we are going to learn a strategy for helping us read and take notes! Read this passage and take notes It’s okay if you don’t finish! Lesson 3.3

6. Skim and Scoop Strategy Now, use your notes to answer these questions! In what paragraph would you find: How tall are the adult elephants? How do elephants talk with each other? What can elephants do with their trunks? Lesson 3.3

7. Skim and Scoop Strategy How did you approach this task? What strategies did you use? Did you find this easy or challenging? Why? Lesson 3.3

8. Skim and Scoop Strategy Module 2 Guided Instruction Lesson 3.3

9. Skim and Scoop Strategy This rectangle represents a page of text Where would you be able to find the main idea on this page? Lesson 3.3

10. Skim and Scoop Strategy The Skim and Scoop strategy can be used to quickly identify the topic, main ideas, and important details in a passage Lesson 3.3

11. Skim and Scoop Strategy The Skim and Scoop Strategy Lesson 3.3

12. Skim and Scoop Strategy The Skim and Scoop Strategy 1. SKIM the passage for repeated words in the text Lesson 3.3

13. Skim and Scoop Strategy The Skim and Scoop Strategy 2. SCOOP or circle the repeated words. Write the word that appears most at the top of the page. This is an easy way to find the TOPIC! Lesson 3.3

14. Skim and Scoop Strategy The Skim and Scoop Strategy 3. OUTLINE the passage by drawing a line down the left-hand side of the paragraph. Add numbers to each indented paragraph Lesson 3.3

15. Skim and Scoop Strategy The Skim and Scoop Strategy 4. READ each paragraph Use a different color pencil or marker for each paragraph to skim and scoop for words/synonyms that could be grouped together in a category Lesson 3.3

16. Skim and Scoop Strategy The Skim and Scoop Strategy 5. WRITE 1-2 words in the margin next to each paragraph to describe the category of circled words These are SUBTOPICS represented in each paragraph Lesson 3.3

17. Skim and Scoop Strategy Steps 1 & 2: Skim and Scoop People love penguins. Since they cannot fly, they swim through the ocean looking for fish to eat. Fish are most penguins’ favorite food, but they will also eat squid and shrimp. Since they are such good swimmers, they can easily catch food in their beaks. There are twenty kinds of penguins in the world, but they all live in the Southern Hemisphere. Emperor penguins are the largest kind of penguin. They can be more than 3 feet tall and weigh more than 35 pounds. The smallest penguin is the fairy penguin. It is only 16 inches tall and weighs only 2 pounds. People think penguins only live in the snow, but that is not true. Many penguins do live in cold places like Antarctica, but there are lots of penguins who live in warmer places like Australia or the Galapagos Islands. As long as there is cold water full of fish, penguins are happy to live there! Lesson 3.3

18. Skim and Scoop Strategy Main Idea: Penguins Step 2 (con’t): Find the Main Idea People love penguins. Since they cannot fly, they swim through the ocean looking for fish to eat. Fish are a favorite food of most penguins, but they will also eat squid and shrimp. Since they are such good swimmers, they can easily catch food in their beaks. There are twenty kinds of penguins in the world, but they all live in the Southern Hemisphere. Emperor penguins are the largest kind of penguin. They can be more than 3 feet tall and weigh more than 35 pounds. The smallest penguin is the fairy penguin. It is only 16 inches tall and weighs only 2 pounds. People think penguins only live in the snow, but that is not true. Many penguins do live in cold places like Antarctica, but there are lots of penguins who live in warmer places like Australia or the Galapagos Islands. As long as there is cold water full of fish, penguins are happy to live there! Lesson 3.3

19. Skim and Scoop Strategy Main Idea: Penguins I II III Step 3: Outline and Add Roman Numerals People love penguins. Since they cannot fly, they swim through the ocean looking for fish to eat. Fish are a favorite food of most penguins, but they will also eat squid and shrimp. Since they are such good swimmers, they can easily catch food in their beaks. There are twenty kinds of penguins in the world, but they all live in the Southern Hemisphere. Emperor penguins are the largest kind of penguin. They can be more than 3 feet tall and weigh more than 35 pounds. The smallest penguin is the fairy penguin. It is only 16 inches tall and weighs only 2 pounds. People think penguins only live in the snow, but that is not true. Many penguins do live in cold places like Antarctica, but there are lots of penguins who live in warmer places like Australia or the Galapagos Islands. As long as there is cold water full of fish, penguins are happy to live there! Lesson 3.3

20. Skim and Scoop Strategy Main Idea: Penguins I II III Step 4: Skim Each Paragraph People love penguins. Since they cannot fly, they swim through the ocean looking for fish to eat. Fish are a favorite food of most penguins, but they will also eat squid and shrimp. Since they are such good swimmers, they can easily catch food in their beaks. There are twenty kinds of penguins in the world, but they all live in the Southern Hemisphere. Emperor penguins are the largest kind of penguin. They can be more than 3 feet tall and weigh more than 35 pounds. The smallest penguin is the fairy penguin. It is only 16 inches tall and weighs only 2 pounds. People think penguins only live in the snow, but that is not true. Many penguins do live in cold places like Antarctica, but there are lots of penguins who live in warmer places like Australia or the Galapagos Islands. As long as there is cold water full of fish, penguins are happy to live there! Lesson 3.3

21. Skim and Scoop Strategy Main Idea: Penguins Eating Habits I II Types III Habitat Step 5: Identify Paragraph Topics People love penguins. Since they cannot fly, they swim through the ocean looking for fish to eat. Fish are a favorite food of most penguins, but they will also eat squid and shrimp. Since they are such good swimmers, they can easily catch food in their beaks. There are twenty kinds of penguins in the world, but they all live in the Southern Hemisphere. Emperor penguins are the largest kind of penguin. They can be more than 3 feet tall and weigh more than 35 pounds. The smallest penguin is the fairy penguin. It is only 16 inches tall and weighs only 2 pounds. People think penguins only live in the snow, but that is not true. Many penguins do live in cold places like Antarctica, but there are lots of penguins who live in warmer places like Australia or the Galapagos Islands. As long as there is cold water full of fish, penguins are happy to live there! Lesson 3.3

22. Skim and Scoop Strategy • Let’s see how Skim and Scoop worked! • How tall is the emperor penguin? • What are some countries penguins live in? • How do penguins catch their food? Lesson 3.3

23. Skim and Scoop Strategy Module 3 Independent Practice Lesson 3.3

24. Skim and Scoop Strategy Now it’s your turn to use the Skim and Scoop strategy! Remember to outline and number the paragraphs before identifying the topic and subtopics! Lesson 3.3

25. Step 4: Skim each paragraph • Step 3: Outline and add Numbers • Step 5: Identify paragraph topics • Step 2: Identify Main Idea • Steps 1 & 2: Skim and Scoop Skim and Scoop Strategy Main Idea: The Titanic I Back in 1912, the Titanic was the biggest ship in the world. Nicknamed “The Wonder Ship,” the Titanic was as long as three football fields and as tall as a seventeen-story building. It was so big that some people described the Titanic as a floating palace. It had many restaurants, a heated swimming pool, a gym, two libraries, and two barber shops. The Titanic even had its own newspaper and post office! Even though it was gigantic, the Titanic was also considered to be the safest ship ever built. On April 10, 1912, the Titanic set sail from England for the very first time. But something terrible happened four days later when the Titanic hit an iceberg that ripped a hole in its bottom. An iceberg, also known as an ice mountain, is a large piece of ice floating in the water. Icebergs are very dangerous for ships because only the top of the iceberg is visible; most of the ice is hidden under the water. Many ships warned the Titanic to watch out for floating sea ice, but the captain ignored their warnings. As the water rushed into the hole in the ship, the workers on the Titanic tried to signal for help using the ship’s radio and warning rockets. One ship, the Californian, was only ten miles away - close enough to save everyone. But the radio on the Californian was turned off, and no one heard the calls for help. Sailors on the Californian saw the rockets that looked like fireworks. They did not understand that the Titanic was in trouble, so they did not come to help. Many passengers tried to get into the lifeboats, but there were not enough to save everyone.  New safety laws were passed after the Titanic sank. Today, the laws say that every ship must have enough lifeboats to hold every single person on board. Ship radios can never be turned off, so ships can hear every call for help. There are also special ice patrol airplanes to keep ships safe from dangerous icebergs. These laws show that the whole world learned a hard lesson from the sinking of the Titanic. Size 2 Iceberg 3 Calls for help 4 Safety laws Lesson 3.3

26. Main Idea: Althea Gibson • Step 4: Skim each paragraph • Step 5: Identify paragraph topics • Step 3: Outline and add Numbers Skim and Scoop Strategy • Step 2: Identify Main Idea • Steps 1 & 2: Skim and Scoop I Althea Gibson was born on August 25, 1927 in Silver, South Carolina and moved at a young age with her family to Harlem, New York where she was raised. Althea’s early life was filled with hardships. Her parents had a difficult time earning a living and Gibson often skipped school because of her struggles in the classroom.  Fortunately for Althea, she loved sports. Althea was lucky because the street in front of her apartment was turned into a play area during the day; no cars were allowed and kids could play any game they wanted. Her favorite sport was ping pong. She would play every day after school, practicing until she could beat anyone who challenged her. She was the ping pong champion of New York City when she was 12 years old; no adult could beat her! She was very good at sports because she always practiced hard. When she was older she was even a professional golfer. But when she was 14 she was introduced to the sport that would change her life: tennis. She quickly earned fame as a champion tennis player. She won her very first tournament in 1941 at a local tournament sponsored by the American Tennis Association, which existed to promote and sponsor tournaments for black players. She became the first African American woman tennis player to win the U.S. National Championships, the Wimbledon Tennis Championship, and the French Open Championship. She was so famous that she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. Being Black made Althea’s life harder, but she fought back. Early in her career, she was not invited to play in major competitions, even though she was good enough. After many players, fans, and former champions protested that Althea deserved a chance, she was allowed to compete. With each victory, she fought for recognition and rights for black people. In her own words, “Shaking the hand of the Queen of England is a long way from being forced to sit [in the back] of the bus.” Early life 2 Sports 3 Champion 4 Struggle Lesson 3.3

27. Skim and Scoop Strategy Now you are going to play the role of the teacher and write three good questions about the passage! Lesson 3.3

28. Skim and Scoop Strategy Module 4 Metacognitive Wrap-up Lesson 3.3

29. Skim and Scoop Strategy Let’s go back to the very beginning and use the Skim and Scoop strategy on the passage you first read! Lesson 3.3

30. Step 3: Outline and add Roman Numerals • Step 2: Identify Main Idea • Step 4: Skim each paragraph • Step 5: Identify paragraph topics • Steps 1 & 2: Skim and Scoop Skim and Scoop Strategy Main Idea: Elephants I Elephants are huge! They are the largest land animal alive on earth, standing at over 10 feet tall and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. They have large skulls, large teeth (known as tusks), and a really long nose called a trunk. Elephants have the biggest babies too. A newborn elephant is 250 pounds when it is born. The elephant’s trunk is amazing. Elephants use their trunks to do almost everything. They use their trunks for breathing, smelling, making sounds, touching objects or picking them up. There are 150,000 muscles in the trunk, making it very flexible and strong. Elephants can use their trunk for delicate tasks, like wiping their eyes, and strong tasks, like lifting over 300 pounds. An elephant’s trumpet is legendary, but that is only one way that elephants communicate with each other. They talk to each other through nonverbal means, such as a gentle touch with a trunk or a strong push with tusks. They can also produce an amazing range of vocal noises. They are capable of making sounds so low that humans cannot hear them. They are even able to sense vibrations in the ground. With this ability they can tell when their family is in danger, even at distances of 20 miles. Even though elephants are amazing creatures, they may not be around for long. The number of elephants is shrinking every day. In the past 40 years, the number of elephants in Africa has shrunk from 1.3 million to 440,000. Elephants in Asia are also disappearing. There are only 50,000 elephants left in Asia. Loss of habitat and poaching are the two main reasons that elephant populations are dying out. Hopefully people will learn how to protect elephants because they are amazing animals. Size 2 Trunks 3 Communication 4 Endangered Lesson 3.3 Try it out!

31. Skim and Scoop Strategy Passage 1: Main Idea: Elephants Subtopics: I. Size II. Trunk III. Communication IV. Endangered Lesson 3.3

32. Skim and Scoop Strategy What is happening to elephants in both Africa and Asia? How much does a newborn baby elephant weigh? Lesson 3.3

33. Skim and Scoop Strategy Take out your answers from before and compare your scores Did you see a different in how your notes helped you answer the questions? How did the Skim and Scoop strategy help? Was your notetaking more systematic than the second time? How might you use this strategy? Lesson 3.3

34. Strategy Shout Out • What strategy did you use? • How did you use the strategy? • Was the strategy helpful? How did you know that it was helpful?