Summarizing Strategies

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Summarizing Strategies
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Essential Question How can I use summarizing to
increase student learning in my classroom?

• Assessment Prompts
• What is summarizing?
• Why should students summarize?
• How is summarizing distributed throughout a
  lesson?
• What are some strategies for summarizing at the
  end of a lesson?

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What is Summarizing?

• Summarizing is a learning strategy.
• It asks the learner to restate key points of the
  lesson or answer the essential question in a few
  words or in a new way.
• Summarizing is the strategy that has the second
  greatest effect on student achievement. (Marzano,
  Pickering and Pollock in Classroom Instruction
  that Works.)

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Summarizing Formats

• Writing summarize key points something youve
  learned
• Orally numbered heads discuss or answer the
  essential question in pairs
• Dramatically individually or in pairs act out
  the content
• Visually/ Artistically create a visual that
  summarizes the content of what we have learned
• Physically use movement to show understanding
  of the content
• Musically create a jingle, poem, or rap

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Ones, tell the twos what summarizing is.

• Twos, tell the ones five different formats for
  summarizing.

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Why summarize?

• Helps the teacher gather evidence of learning
• Students misconceptions, confusions, and
  misunderstandings surface
• Builds comprehension and long-term retention of
  information for students
• Helps students understand what they understand
  and what they still need to learn
• Gives students the chance to use new vocabulary
• Helps students construct personal meaning from
  their learning.

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Ones tell the twos why summarizing is helpful for
the teacher.

• Twos tell the ones why summarizing is helpful for
  the student.

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What are two types of summarizing?

• Distributed summarizing throughout the lesson
• Summarizing at the end of the lesson

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Distributed Summarizing

• Based on attention span of students (age 1 or 2
  minutes)
• Helps teacher know who has learned information
  before moving on with more information
• Is linked to the assessment prompts
• Requires dialogue rather than yes/no answers
• Involves all students
• Occurs throughout the lesson

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Basic Strategy Numbered Heads

• Number students in pairs and assign each student
  a number
• Assign a task to each numbered student
• Plan when to insert a question prompt
• Create questions to be asked at important
  intervals
• Chunk your instruction and ask questions at
  pre-determined intervals

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Prompts or Questions for Pairs

• We have been talking about __________. Ones,
  clarify or explain _________ to your parenter and
  twos report.
• Ones, explain to twos why ________ is important.
  Twos, share one or two key ppoints to remember
  about __________.
• Twos tell ones how to _________ (stpes in a
  process). Ones carry out the process and twos
  describe. If you disagree, explain why and
  discuss.

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Twos tell the ones what distributed summarizing
is and why its important.

• Ones tell the twos what the basic strategy is for
  distributed summarizing and the things you need
  to remember when planning for it.

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Summarizing at the End of a Lesson

• Ticket out the Door
• Carousel Brainstorming
• Absent student letter
• 3-2-1
• Key Word Acrostic
• Inside/Outside Circles
• The Important Thing
• ABC Review
• Show me
• Draw a picture or diagram create an organizer
• Writing
• Learning Log
• RAFT
• 2 Summary

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Lets Try Some!
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Twos tell the ones four summarizing strategies
that involve writing.

• Ones tell the twos four summarizing strategies
  that dont involve writing.

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Complete your organizer by writing a summary to
answer the essential question.

• How can I use summarizing to increase student
  learning in my classroom?