Summarizing Hero
I. Rationale: Summarization is very
important for reading this helps students to be able to read large passages and
then break them down into the important information that they need to remember
about the story. This is very important to help students to comprehend the
story. The purpose of reading is to comprehend what has been read by the reader.
In this lesson, I will teach the students’ story sequencing as a way of learning
to summarize so that they may improve their reading comprehension.
II. Materials:
- Multiple copies of “Mrs. Small is off the wall” by Dan Gutman
-Five large sheets of paper
- Markers
III. Procedures:
1.
I will pre-assign the book “Mrs. Small is off the wall” by Dan Gutman to
the entire class. I will assign this at
least a week in advance to this lesson so that the students will have read it
and will know what is happening in the book. While the students are reading this
book I will ask them to write down information about the book that they think is
important to comprehending the story.
2. On the day the reading is due, I
will ask the students to take out their books and their paper with the
information written on it.
3. Now that everyone has completed
the book Mrs Small is off the wall, we are going to learn how to write a
summary. Can anyone tell me what a summary is?
A summary is a paragraph, or four to five sentences that, is written in
your own words to tell about a story you have read.
Writing summaries can help you to remember what you have previously read.
This process can be a lot of fun.
4. As a class we are going to discuss
what happened at the beginning of the story and write the most important facts
down on the board.
5. Now that we have done this as a class I am going to divide you into groups of
three to discuss the rest of the book and for you to write your summary.
6. Remember a summary is a small description of the book in your own words.
7. After the students have finished their summaries they will be given a small
passage to take home to summarize and bring back the following day for review.
IV. Assessment: I will use their
summaries to assess the students’ understanding and comprehension of
summarization.
V. References:
Gutman, Dan. Mrs. Small is off the
Wall. HarperCollins Publishing. 2005
Swindall, Tamra. “Learning to Summarize”. www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/inroads/swindallrl.html
Tomlinson, Lindsey. “Comprehension in the Cold”. www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/inroads/tomlinsonrl.html
Oglesby, Kara. Fun With Summarizing
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/openings/oglesbyrl.html