Let's Sum It All Up!
Learning To Read
Rationale:
In order for the student to
understand the text they are reading, they need to know how to
comprehend the
story and make sense of it. Summarization will help the students to
gather and
remember the important facts in the text. This lesson includes
activities that
will help the students practice this.
Materials:
Pencils
Summarization
Rules written on board:
1.
Pick
out the most important information and highlight the key words
2.
Substitute a series of events
for a list
of items.
3.
Add a series of events with an
easy action
term
4.
Write a sentence that covers
everything
that is important information from the passage.
5.
Invent a topic sentence if
there is not
one.
Notebook Paper
Highlighters
Assessment checklist:
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Did the Student |
Yes |
No |
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Pick out important info? |
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Write
a sentence using important information? |
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To start off the
lesson, I
will ask the class who knows the meaning of comprehension. I will post
the
difference definitions on the board and then explain the meaning. Comprehension means that we understand what we
read and are
able to remember it after we are done reading. Being able to sum up the
story
will help us understand the main parts.
I
will then
explain summarization and the rules in order to do this while finding
the most
beneficial parts of the text.
I
will pass out
the article, ‰€œSpring Peepers‰€�. I will
tell them that we are going to practice summarizing with this article.
Each
student will
be given a highlighter where they will use this to help focus on the
main parts
of the article.
As a
class, we
will talk about which parts were the most important and would help us
write a
summary in the shortest form. Then we will write a summary together.
After
we have
written a summary, the students will split up into pairs and talk about
their
summary and which parts they put in that they thought were the most
important.
Assessment:
I
will go around
with the checklist and listen while they are paired in the groups to
make sure
everyone understands the assignment.
References:
‰€œSpring Peepers‰€� National
Geographic for Kids, 2009 http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/
Lesson
Design by
Mandy Jones
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/sightings/jonesrl.html