Swimming into Summarization!
By:
Kiera
Averett
Rationale:
Comprehension is very important in reading.
Summarization is vital to understanding
reading.
This lesson focuses on summarization.
It will help students with their
summarization skills through the modeling of summarizing strategies,
and practicing summarization.
Students should be able to get rid of
unnecessary information, pick out important details, and a write one or
two sentence summary.
In order to achieve this goal, students will
practice summarization by reading an article and discussing the process
and their sentence summaries with a group of their peers.
Materials:
Pencils
Highlighters
for each student
Visa Vis
markers (for marking out information on the example article)
Overhead of National Geographic article:
���On the Move��� (example article for
modeling)
National Geographic article:
���On the Menu��� (copy for each student)
Poster with
summarization rules to display:
-Get rid of
unnecessary information
-Pick out
the most important information
-Write one
or two sentences that include only the important information and
conclusions drawn from the passage
Summarization
checklist for Assessment:
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Did
the Student: |
YES |
NO |
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Get
rid of unnecessary information? |
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|
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Pick
out the most important information from the article? |
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|
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Write a one to two sentence summary including important information and
conclusions? |
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|
Procedure:
1.Introduce the new comprehension strategy, summarization, to the
students.
���Today we are going to learn an important
way to help us understand what we read-it is called summarization.
Can anyone tell me what summarization is?
It is being able to get rid of unimportant in the text.
When we summarize, we explain the main
ideas which helps us understand what we are reading.
2.Explain the rules on the poster.
1.
Get rid of unnecessary information.
2.
Pick out the most important information.
3.
Write a one to two sentence summary
including important information and conclusions.
3.Model summarization.
Place the article ���On the Move��� on the
overhead for students to see.
���Now I���ll show you how you can use the
three summarization rules.
Let���s read ���On the Move��� together.���
(Read it aloud with the class).
This article will tell us how different
animals move.
On our summarization rules poster it says that we
first need to get rid of unnecessary information.
So with this marker, I will cross out
���That���s 6,000 kilometers(4,000 miles)��� because we do not need to
know the exact number of how far animals travel.(There are seven
paragraphs so we will continue crossing out the unnecessary information
together)
���The next rule is to pick out the most
important.���
(I will highlight the important information
in the article.
For example, I would highlight information such as:
All animals move.
They walk, run, crawl, fly, and swim.
���Our last rule is to write one or two
sentences that include only the important information and conclusion
drawn from the passage.
So I think my summary will be-Animals move
by walking, running, crawling, flying, and swimming.
Some animals get around in different ways
by what they have.���
4.���Let���s practice our new skill.
I have a copy of an article for each of you.
It is from National Geographic Kids called
���On the Menu��� that I want you to read silently.���
Give a book talk for the article.
Booktalk:
There are many ways for animals to stay
away from predators.
A predator is an animal that hunts and eats other
animals.
Some animals hide or run.
How do you think a fish or a lizard might
stay away from predators?
You will have to read the article to find
out. ���Remember our three summarization rules as you read the article.
You can look up at the poster to remind you.
As you read, I want you to mark out the
unnecessary information with your pencils and highlight the main ideas.
After you finish reading the article, write
a one or two sentence summary of what you read.���
5.���Now
I want you to get into groups of four and share what you did to
summarize your articles.
I also want you to share the sentence summary you
wrote.
Give them about 10-15 minutes for
discussion.
Then have them turn in their sentence
summaries and articles (with their markings) to the instructor.
Assessment:
Students will be assessed on their
summarization sentences and articles (with their markings).
I will use a checklist to assess their
progress.
Students are required to earn at least two
out of the three checks possible.
I will use this information to determine
which students need to work more on this skill.
References:
National
Geographic-���On the Move���
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/pioneer/0703/articles/mainarticle.html
National
Geographic-���On the Menu���
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0503/articles/mainarticle.html
Gluckman,
Amanda-���Long Story Short���
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/projects/gluckmanrl.html