Summarize Connect to the Text What do you know about summarizing What words come to mind 2 How do you summarize What do we already know to create a clear concise and complete condensed ID: 904836
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then
Summarize
Synthesize
Slide2Summarize
Connect to the Text
Slide3What do you know about
summarizing? What words come to mind? 2. How do you summarize?
What do we already know?
Slide4to create a
clear, concise, and complete condensed
account of the original; to present the substance
or general idea in brief form;
to cover the main points
Summarize --
Slide5Why is summarizing
important?
Discuss --
Slide6Why
do we summarize? “Practice in summarizing improves students’ reading comprehension of fiction and nonfiction alike, helping
to construct an overall understanding of a text, story, chapter, or article.”(Rinehart, Stahl & Erickson, 1986)
Slide7Who?
What?When?Where?How?Why?
Be a News Reporter
Slide8Ways to introduce a summary:
The most important ideas in this text are…
This book was about…
First… Next… Then… Finally…
This story takes place…
The main characters are…The problem occurs when…
Slide9Look at the title.
Look at the first and last paragraph.Ask yourself: “What is discussed through the whole section?”
Look at captions, pictures, words in bold, and headings for clues to the topic. What do they all have in common?
Steps to identify the topic ~
Slide10Authors often plant
important ideas in: Details that reflect the title
Details at the beginning of text Details at the end Surprises or revelations
Repetitions
Lots of attention given to a detail Subheads and italicized text Changes in character, tone, mood, setting, plot A question near the beginning or end
Identify All Details/Major Events
Slide111. If you have not read the text yourself, would you be able to understand what it was about from the summary? Why or why not?
2. Is there anything important that should be added? What is it?3. Is there anything unimportant that should be be left out of the summary? What is it?
How to evaluate your summary
Slide12Title
of Text to be Summarized
Key word (s)Summarizing Fourth text chunk
Key word (s)
Summarizing
First text chunk
Key word (s)Summarizing Third text chunkKey word (s)Summarizing Second text chunk
Slide13Somebody/Wanted/
But/So Then
Reading Skills Importantto Summarization Conflict/Resolution Character Differences, Goals,
and Motivations Main Ideas and Details
Making Generalizations
Slide14Excerpt from
The NecklaceMrs. Loisel wanted to be rich and wanted to go to the dance. BUT she didn’t have the right clothes and jewelry. SO
she shamed her husband into buying her a dress and she borrowed a necklace. THEN Mrs. Loisel wanted to give back the necklace after she wore it. BUT
she had lost it. SO she and her husband had to find a new one and
THEN
borrow money to buy it so she could return the replacement to her friend.
Slide15“She put on two woolen suits, one on top of the other. Then she put on two leather suits and covered her bulky outfit with a skirt.”
Excerpt from Ruth Law Thrills a Nation (Brown, 1993)
Sum It Up!
Slide163
Things You Found Out2 Interesting Facts1 Question You Still Have
3 – 2 – 1 Strategy
Slide17Synthesize
Connect to the Text
Slide18The putting
together
of parts or
elements
so as to
form a whole
SYNTHESIZE – Beyond Summary
Slide19“The process of ordering, recalling, retelling, and recreating into a coherent whole the information with which our minds are bombarded every day. It is the uniquely human trait that permits us to sift through a myriad of details and focus on those pieces we need to know and remember.”
(Keene/Zimmerman)
Synthesis is…
Slide20“Synthesizing is like inferring, only super-sized!”
“When you synthesize you say
in your head, I used to think this, but
now I’m
thinking this.”
“When I synthesize, my mind is changing, my ideas are changing, my thinking is changing.”
Slide21“As families share
the events of the day, they are synthesizing, sorting out the unimportant, and creating individual interpretations of the day.” Keene, Zimmerman
BringingIt home…
Slide22How is synthesizing important for your understanding?
Synthesizing
Slide23Ways to
Synthesize
Slide24Combine
Integrate
ModifyRearrange
Substitute
Plan
CreateDesign
InventBloom’s TaxonomyComposeConstructDevelopOrganizePerformProduceProposeRewrite
Cues for Synthesis
Slide25Read a thought-provoking article.
Write only two different words that reflect your thinking about the passage.
After selections, tell others the words, why you chose them, and how they relate to your life.
Two-Word Strategy
Slide26Each person writes
one item that he/she knows about the subject studied. The strips of paper are read aloud in a small group.
The group organizes itself in some coherent form.The group reads the “poem” to the class.
Strip Poem
Slide27Directions:
1. Select a quote from the article you’ve read. Write your thought/ idea/question about the quote.2. In a small group, give your quote and allow all others to respond. 3. At the end, share your comments.
Save the Last Word for Me
Slide28Student sits in a chair in front of the room and assume a character from their book.
Ask student various questions about his/her character’s life.Move to a higher level and ask his/her opinion on different subjects clearly important to that character.
Character Hot Seat