• Summarizing And Note Taking


By: Penny Greene


Marzano's recommendations for classroom practice's include:

Technology Resources: Microsoft formats and microsoft word and many tools available, Interactive notebooks, Using the notebook software and the Smartboard.


Beginning, Middle, and the End: Teaching younger students using videos helping them recall and maintain the beginning, middle, and end of any story prepares the students with the next step of, "Sequencing Key Events." With this in place we then begin to relate the, "Main Idea and Details" of the five (5) W's and of course the how, "Character Who, what, when, where, why, and how."

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The Out Dated Over-Head

Please try this on your smart board?

Where is "OUR SMART BOARD?"

Summarizing
With assistance of teachers, students must decide how to obtain an effective summarization. What information is needed and what is not? By choosing which portion of the materials are not repetitive, inconsequential, but is the key data that will give them the main idea or topic with supporting details. The students must be able formulate information and organize it in fewer words.
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Note Taking

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Some basic rules

1. Take out materials that are not important.

2. Take out any repeated information.

3. Replace long list with the usage of one (1) word items.

4. Use the topic sentence.


Here are some examples that will assist students with note taking

Example of Column 3 note taking

Topic – List your QuestionsCite your Resource

Information / Details Collected

What this text is about?

What this means to me.What this makes me think about?

Below Teacher's Notes



Teachers Prepared Notes

Graphics, Drawings, and Illustrations

Questions

http://www.tltguide.ccsd.k12.co.us/instructional_tools/Strategies/Strategies.html

Now we have the 3-2-1 method: Ask your students to write:

3- Key ideas that they believe are most important.

2- What do they need to study and learn more of.

1- Any questions they have, ask them?








Collabortive learning also is a useful technique

Think, Write, Pair, Share or Think, Write, Trio, Share

“Write your idea on your card, find a partner (or two) and share your idea.”

When you ask students to share an idea –

Give them a card to think and WRITE what they are thinking.

Then everyone has the opportunity to come to the group with an idea. This will give those who tend to be more reflective a chance to think!



Ideas from Bruce Welman, Carolyn Chapman, and Laurie Kagan
Comments: Penny, I really believe that learning to make a good note taking technique will help us always. So your job have a wonderful ideas.