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Summarization - We all require it... who is teaching it?
1. SUMMARIZATION
We all require it.
So who is teaching it?
Sean P. Nash - compiled April, 2009
2. +AGREE or DISAGREE-
• Summarization if one of the nine most effective teaching
strategies in the history of education.
• Summarization is restating the essence of text or an
experience in as few words as possible or in a new, yet
efficient manner.
• Information student take in during a 45 min. lecture rarely
makes it to long-term memory.
• Summarization must be taught with an awareness that it is a
strategy for making content “stick.”
19. MANY STRATEGIES:
• ACTIVATE STUDENT’S PERSONAL
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
• PRIME STUDENT’S BRAINS
• TEACH TEXT STRUCTURE...
Wormeli, 2005
20. TEACH UNDERLYING
TEXT STRUCTURE:
*PS- a solid “test taking”
strategy as well!
• enumeration
• chronological order
• compare & contrast
• cause & effect
• problem & solution
Wormeli, 2005
21. MORE STRATEGIES:
• INTRODUCE STUDENTS TO
ANALOGIES
• CHUNK TEXT AND LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
• TEACH ACTIVE READING TOOLS
• STRESS SCHOLARLY OBJECTIVITY
• TEACH STUDENTS TO EVALUATE THEIR
OWN SUMMARIES
Wormeli, 2005