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what's that you say?

Rationale: The ultimate goal of reading is comprehension. A good way to help children comprehend text is to summarize. Without the ability to summarize a story or event, a child will have trouble understanding the main point or idea. Through teacher modeling specific strategies students can learn to expand their comprehension skills and summarize for themselves.

Materials:

  1. Poster with rules on it (see procedure)

  2. Highlighter

  3. Pencil

  4. Paper

  5. Grade sheet

  6. Copy of the article about the Reticulated Glass Frog for each student

       Found at:  https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reticulatedglassfrog/#reticulatedglassfrogprofile.jpg

  7.  Copy of the article called “what’s up dog?” for each student

       Found at: https://www.timeforkids.com/g2/whats-up-dog-3/

 

Procedures:

 

1. Hello class! Who can tell me what the term summarization means? Excellent! It means to take the main or the most important ideas out of a passage. Summarizing will help you better understand what you read.

 

2. For you to better understand what you have read I want us to all look at the poster with the "rules for summarization" on it. Going through each one of these steps will help you become better summarizers. (Go through the rules on the poster)

Poster-             

Rules:

  Get rid of unimportant information

  Get rid of repeated information

  Select a topic

  Write a topic statement that covers everything that is important from the passage of text

3. I gave all of you a copy of the article "Reticulated Glass Frogs" I want everyone to quietly read the article to yourselves and then I will read it out loud. Now that everyone has read it. I want everyone to get a highlighter and a pencil out. With the pencil we are going to cross out any information that seems unimportant. For example: we don’t need the part of him flaunting his little belly around. Let the students give more lines or information that is unimportant. Now I want everyone to highlight parts of the article that they think are important. Once again let the students share what they highlighted and let them give their reason why they think it is important. Our last step is to select a topic (Frogs) and write our topic sentence. Gather the important information from the students and put together the sentence.

 

4. I am going to pass out another article for you guys to read on your own and then I want you following the summarization rules to write a topic sentence for the article. In the article, "What’s up dog?" you will learn about what it’s like to be a dog. Scientist have finally figure out what it is really like for our favorite pets! You will have to just read the article to find out what all the hype is about.

 

5. For assessment the teacher will collect the summarizations the students wrote and compare it to the checklist below. If the students received a "no" then the teacher will discuss what they can do different next time to correct it.

 

Did the student?

Comprehends the information from the passage.  _____Yes _____ No

Got rid of unnecessary information from the passage. _____Yes _____ No

Picked out the most important information from the passage. _____Yes _____ No

Write at least one sentence that covers everything that is important information from the passage. _____Yes _____ No

References:

Rebekah Woods:

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/realizations/woodsrl.htm

Frog article:

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reticulatedglassfrog/#reticulatedglassfrogprofile.jpg

Dog article:

Found at: https://www.timeforkids.com/g2/whats-up-dog-3/

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