Super Saturday
Writing Conference
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SESSION 3 | Grades 3-12 / ELL Levels 3-5
[HANDOUT]
Summarize content-area information
Scaffold summarization instruction
Define the goal of a summary.
Summaries include only the most important information told in order.
Support early explanations with word banks
Using text features, generate a Title-Wave Summary.
Utilize the subheadings of a longer text to generate a summary after reading.
Expect longer summaries with structured support
Complete an Information Pyramid.
Students customize their understandings by completing an Information Pyramid with no one right answer.
Main Idea
Google Slide |
Template | Smartboard
Jamboard
Biographical
Google Slide |
Template | Smartboard
Jamboard
Cause-Effect
Google Slide |
Template | Smartboard
Jamboard | Example
Descriptive
Google Slide |
Template | Smartboard
Jamboard
Support comprehensive summaries with frames.
Students can hone their summarizing skills by completing the Somebody… Wanted… But… So… Then… frame.
Tweak the interpretation and the Somebody… Wanted… But… So… Then… frameworks for math story problems, too.
Students oral and written summaries need to match the same text structure of the passage.