Summarizing Strategies
Purpose: To engage students in synthesizing major concepts in this summary strategy.
Decsription: Students respond to the following related to a particular topic: 3 things that interest me about the topic, 2 things I'd like to know more about the topic, 1 idea they have about the topic.
Procedure:
1. Students draw an upside down triangle on their paper.
2. In the big space at the top, students write 3 things that interested them about the topic.
3. In the middle space, students write 2 more things they want to learn about the topic.
4. In the small space at the bottom of the triangle, students write one sentence to sum up the big idea of the topic.
Resource: Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All (2nd ed.), by Gayle H. Gregory and Carolyn Chapman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, www.corwinpress.com
See template by clicking this link. (You will need MS Word installed to view the download.) 3-2-1 Template
Purpose: To engage students in synthesizing major concepts in this summary strategy.
Description: In Shape Up Review students will synthesize major concepts from the lesson using four different shapes. Teacher can modify so students may select one of the shapes or dictate which shape to use.
By varying the manner in which students visually summarize their learning, retention of the information learned is increased.
Procedure:
1. Share the Shape Up Review Template. Have students draw their own Shape Up Review.
2. In "The Heart," have students write one thing that they loved learning about in the lesson being reviewed.
3. In "The Square," have students write four things that they feel are important concepts from the lesson being reviewed. One concept should be placed in each corner.
4. In "The Triangle," have students write the three most important facts they learned from lesson being reviewed. One fact should go in each corner.
5. In "The Circle," have students write one, all-encompassing (global- like the circle) statement that summarizes all of the important concepts and facts learned in the lesson being reviewed.
See template by clicking this link. (You will need MS Word installed to view the download.)
Shape Up Review Template
Purpose: To engage students in synthesizing major concepts in this summary strategy.Description:A Ticket Out the Door is a quick informal assessment that can be as simple as one sentence summary of what students learned. Other uses are to answer a review question, to pose a question related to the topic studied, to make a short list of facts learned, or to set a learning goal for the next day. Procedure: Use a stickie note to have students write their response or create a formal template of a ticket and have students write their response on the ticket as they walk out the door. The most important piece of this activity is that the teacher takes time to review the tickets so she will know what skills/concepts needs to be "re-taught" to those who didn't quite get it.
Purpose: To engage students in synthesizing what they have learned in this summary strategy.
Decsription: Students respond to each letter of the alphabet as a prompt for a word, phrase or sentence that relates to something they have learned in the lesson.
Procedure:
1. Students either use the attached template or create their own A-Z list or boxes as shown in template on their paper.
2. In each space they respond to the letter to prompt them to write a word, phrase or sentence about the lesson.
3. In another version of this summary strategy, teachers give each student a sentence strip with a letter of the alphabet to complete, students stand in A-Z order and share their responses.
Resource: North Carolina Teacher Academy, 2009
See template by clicking this link. (You will need MS Word installed to view the download.) ABC Review Template
Purpose: To engage students in synthesizing major concepts in this summary strategy. Description: Students create an acrostic by placing the name of a topic or concept vertically down the paper. Procedure: Teacher veritcally writes one word as theme or topic of lesson. Students generate a word or phrase that begins with each letter of the vertical word. Resource: http://www.christina.k12.de.us/literacylinks/elemresources/lfs_resources/activating_strategies
Resources:
No Sweat Public Speaking! How to Develop, Practice, and Deliver a Knock Your Socks Off Presentation! With No Sweat! Published by Fred Co., St. Louis, Mo. 2011 Through the Cracks, Carol Sollman, 2008 http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/what-are-formative-assessments-and-why-should-we-use-them *Special thanks to North Carolina Teacher Academy (Unfortunately this agency along with Middle School Literacy Coaches were cut by the General Assembly under the leadership of Governor Beverly Perdue in 2011)