Rockin' Map Summaries
Rationale: During the process of becoming a more skillful reader, it is important that students comprehend what they are reading. They must develop comprehension strategies to apply. A very important comprehension strategy is summarization. Mapping is an important part of summarization. The children will make concept maps by using the comprehension skills they are learning.
Materials:
Science, publisher:
Addison
Wesley Pub.
~ notebook
paper for each student
~ pencil for each student
Procedure:
1.ÊÊÊÊÊÊ Today
we are going to be
using our Science book.Ê We are going to
be read from chapter nine on rocks and minerals. ÊThere
are a lot of interesting and useful facts
about rocks and minerals. ÊI will be
using this chapter to assist us in learning how to summarize a passage.Ê Along with learning this new comprehension
strategy, they will be learn from a chapter in science.
2.ÊÊÊÊÊÊ
Who can tell me what a topic
sentence is? Good,
it is the sentence that may be first, but could be in any place in the
paragraph. It usually talks about many things and looks at the big
picture.
Sometimes it talks about more than one thing. It is usually
supported by
main ideas. We will be looking at main ideas in chapter nine to learn
how to
summarize.
3.ÊÊÊÊÊÊ What does reading silently mean? ÊIt is reading with your eyes and not with your
mouth. ÊI will model a good silent
reader by taking my book and reading a sentence to myself.Ê
Chapter
nine is about rocks and minerals.Ê You
will read about different types of rocks and minerals and what they are
used
for.Ê Now, we will all read chapter nine
silently.Ê Keep in mind how good silent readers
read. ÊWhen you are done reading, take out some
notebook paper and a pencil and look at me so I will be able to tell
when
everyone is finished.
4.ÊÊÊÊÊÊ We are going to make a summary map
of what
we read in chapter nine. Making a summary map means that we are going
to write
down the really important facts we learned in this chapter. ÊWe will do this by looking for topic sentences
and other important facts from our reading. Write the words Rocks
and
Minerals in the middle of your page. ÊThink
about and skim over the chapter to find the important details that were
there. ÊWrite five to seven facts that are
important
in small circles around your main words Rocks and Minerals.Ê ÊI
will model this on the board for the students to have an example to
follow. I
will have Rocks and Minerals written in the middle with several circles
ready
to be filled in.Ê I will model looking
through the book to find facts for my concept map. ÊI will
read several facts and show the
students my thinking on distinguishing between important and
unimportant facts.
I will tell them what I think makes certain facts more important than
the
other.Ê Then, I will put those on the
board in the circles of my concept map.
5.ÊÊÊÊÊÊ After
I have given the group a reasonable amount of time to finish and I have
walked
around and looked at everyoneâs concept map, I will pair them up to
have a talk
time where they will share their most important facts found in the
chapter. They
will use the two maps to form one compiled of each personsâ ideas.Ê After the pairs have combined their maps with
five to seven ideas, each partner group will share them.Ê
Volunteer partners will be asked to go to the
board and map out what they had on their papers.
6.ÊÊÊÊÊÊ In order to assess their abilities, I will take up the maps that the students did. ÊI will also pass out a worksheet with a few questions about making a summarization maps on it and have them answer them.Ê I will look at each one to see if the children really understood the concept of summarization.
References:
~http://cache.tias.com/cgi-bin/google.fcgi/itemKey=1922571536
-Pressley, (Addison-Wesley Science book)
~
Mary
Ann Harbour ãSummarizing and Mapping for Comprehensionä
http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/breakthroughs/harbourrl.html
~Pressley,
Michael; Johnson, Carla J.; Symons, Sonya; McGoldrick, Jacqueline A.;
Kurita,
Janice A.Ê Strategies That Improve
Childrenâs Memory and Comprehension of Text.Ê The
Elementary School Journal Volume 90, Number1.Ê The