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SUMMARY WRITING

SUMMARY WRITING. WHAT IS A SUMMARY. “Summarizing is the process of distilling information down to its most salient points to aid in understanding, memorizing, and learning the relevant material.” Classroom Instruction that Works, 2 nd Ed. p. 78. Summary Writing. SUMMARIZING IMPROVES:

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SUMMARY WRITING

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  1. SUMMARY WRITING

  2. WHAT IS A SUMMARY • “Summarizing is the process of distilling information down to its most salient points to aid in understanding, memorizing, and learning the relevant material.” • Classroom Instruction that Works, 2nd Ed. • p. 78

  3. Summary Writing • SUMMARIZING IMPROVES: • reading skills • vocabulary skills • writing and editing skills • cooperative learning skills

  4. “A summary is a long text distilled to its essentials, the key points worth noting, without examples and details. The specific form, the sentence structure and the vocabulary, has been changed, but the main ideas remain.” • http://busyteacher.org/6214-how-to-teach-summary-writing.html

  5. Rule-Based Summarizing Strategy • Source: CITW, 2nd Ed. • Take out material that is not important to understanding. • Take out words that repeat information. • Replace a list of things with one word that describes them. • Find a topic sentence or create one if it is missing.

  6. Summary Frames • “a series of questions designed to highlight the critical elements of specific text pattern.” • Enables the student to focus on a variety of text genres.

  7. Six Basic Summary Frames • narrative • topic-restriction-illustration • definition • argumentation • problem-solution • conversation

  8. Narrative Framestory • Who are the main characters? What distinguishes them from the other characters? • When and where did the story take place? What were the circumstances? • What prompted the action in the story? • How did the characters express their feelings?

  9. Narrative Framecont. • What did the main characters decide to do? Did they set a goal? What was it? • How did the main characters try to accomplish their goals? • What were the consequences?

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