Lesson for Teaching Summarization
Kendall Goodwin
Rationale: One of the most important things in teaching children to learn to read is comprehension. This lesson is designed to teach children summarization, which will benefit them a great amount when trying to remember what they are reading. . It is important for children to be able to locate the most important information from written text.
Materials: a copy of Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds
Naylor for each student, paper,
pencils.
Procedures:
1. The teach will review silent reading to the class by explaining
that silent reading is when you read in your head without a sound.
Today we are going to learn how to summarize things you are reading.
This will help you remember and comprehend information. ãIn order
to understand what you read, we are going to use a strategy called summarization,
which helps us find the important parts of what we readä.
2. The teacher will now introduce the book Shiloh
to the class and have the students read the first three pages to themselves.
When they have finished reading there will be a question and answer period
about what they had just read. Questions will be in the form of who, what,
when, where, and why. In order to show what is important and what
is not, the teacher should also ask some questions that are not important,
such as, what is the color of the main character shoes.
3. Now the teacher will reread the passage that was
assigned to the students earlier. The teacher will point out the parts
that are most important and those that are not. He or she will model to
the students how to ask the five "w" questions to themselves in order to
find out what is important in a passage. "Ask yourselves who the story
is about, what is the story about, and try to find out when and where the
story is taking place, and why is the story important?" The teacher should
then demonstrate by asking the questions regarding 'who' with them.
4. Next have the children label their papers with
the heading "who, what, when, where, and why". Have the students finish
reading the remainder of the chapter. The students should be able to fill
in the information correctly.
5. For assessment, the teacher will collect all of
the students papers to ensure that each student was able to summarize the
text by locating the most important information. The teacher will have
a checklist that she makes up to see that the children have found the important
points or give a test.
Reference: The Reading Genie Website
http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie
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