Reading

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Reading Writing Strategies

• Module 1
• October Teacher
• Planning Sessions

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• Instruction in Americas elementary reading
  classes has been based on this theory a series
  of comprehension questions coming from the
  basal reader or the teacher are posed, and the
  goal is to see if children can answer them in the
  way the teacher believes they should. Many
  teachers teach what the basals tell them to
  teach. Rarely are students taught HOW to
  comprehend and analyze whole sections of text. If
  students complete drill sheets and workbook
  pages, that ensures that they can comprehend
  text.
• Keene and Zimmerman, Mosaic of Thought, page 16

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Strategies that MOST Impact Achievement
We Need to Maximize the BANG for the BUCK!
Rank Strategy Gain
1 Extending Thinking Skills (compare/contrast cause/effect classifying analogies/metaphors) 45
2 Summarizing 34
3 Vocabulary in Context 33
4 Advance Organizers 28
5 Non-Verbal Representations 25
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What Is Summarizing?

• Retelling in a succinct manner
• Actively processing instead of Passively
  receiving
• Both oral and/or written

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Primacy Recency Effect

• We remember best, what we
• experience first and second best
• what we experience last.
• (Sousa, 2003)

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What does research say about summarizing?

• Students must
• Keep some information
• Delete some information
• Substitute some information
• (Kintsch, Dijk, 1980)

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Think of summarizing as a mirror that is
reflective of our students learning, therefore
of our teaching.
It is both formative and summative, and should
always direct our instruction.
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Summarizing TechniquesIf I taught it, how do I
know they got it?
Your team will have time to divide and conquer.
You will split up and investigate 17 different
summarizing strategies. The next slide names
each strategy. The strategies are SMARTBoard
files in a folder on the T Drive. You will spend
time investigating the strategy, determining
curriculum ties and places that you could utilize
the strategy across various content areas. You
will utilize a graphic organizer to create a
cheat sheet for your teammates. Administration
will collect the cheat sheets and create
strategy cards for your team. Happy summarizing!
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Summarizing TechniquesDivide and Conquer.
Determine which team member will investigate the
different techniques.
Summarizing Frames Summarizing Cubes Inner
Outer Circle ABC Summary Summarization
Pyramid Multiple Journal Topics Four Two-
One One Word Summary Final Countdown
P-M-I A/B Partners 3 2 1 Paired
Summarizing The Important Thing The Last
Word Ticket Out the Door Synectics Journal