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Summarizing / Paraphrasing
GIST
Above is a document that explains the GIST Strategy in detail. There are links in the document that will take you to sites to help explain it in even more detail.
Simply stated, this strategy is intended to have students summarize a block of text (usually a paragraph) in 20 words. |
The above document is an easy to use template that can be used to guide students through the process of summarizing sections of text.
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Writing Prompts on the Fly For Summarizing Concepts and Ideas
Above is a bookmark that can be used by the teacher to quickly produce writing prompts. If you keep one of these handy, you can throw down
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Above is a JPEG file that will allow you to make a cube that can be rolled to get a variety of leveled activities / writing prompts.
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RAFT
Above is a document that will explain what a RAFT is and how to use it in your class. In short, it is a Write-to-Learn activity where a student is given the role, an audience, a format, and a topic to complete a fictional writing piece that is based on content information.
The above document is a rubric that can be used with any RAFT activity. Remember, rubrics can be put into Canvas and will make the grading process fairly easy.
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The above document is a very simple template for setting up a RAFT writing assignment.
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Stump The Teacher |
Three-Level Study Guides |
The above document describes a game that incorporates summarization and leveled questioning. Basically, the teacher and students both read a difficult passage of text. Students then create questions they are going to ask the teacher. The goal is to stump the teacher. This activity is described in detail above and a couple of variations are offered as well.
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Above is a strategy that uses three-leveled questioning. The questions are based on a piece of text and each level of questioning becomes more and more rigorous. The document above also discusses how to use this with struggling readers, so this is a strategy can be used with all levels of students. Quick and easy way to get students Writing-to-Learn.
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