Summarization in Any Subject: 60 Innovative, Tech-Infused Strategies for Deeper Student Learning

by Rick Wormeli, Dedra Stafford

Overview

Summarization. Just when we thought we knew everything about it, the doors to divergent thinking open and summarization—no longer something that students must endure until you get to the "cool" stuff—takes on an exciting new role in student success!

In this second edition of Summarization in Any Subject, Dedra Stafford joins Rick Wormeli in adding fresh depth and creative variations to the basics, including changes to all 50 techniques from the first edition and brand new summarizing techniques that can be differentiated for multiple disciplines and levels of student readiness.

Personably written, with a sense of humor and a commitment to students' substantive engagement with curriculum, this new edition provides practical, "show me what it looks like" tools and descriptions as well as QR codes and tech integrations for many of the techniques. The book provides

• A clear rationale for summarization in any subject along with an explanation of the cognitive science that powers its positive effects, including the influence of background knowledge and primacy-recency, plus the benefits of metaphors, chunking, timing, maintaining objectivity, and the efficacy that comes when students process content.
• Practical tips for teaching students note taking, paraphrasing, and text structure.
• Nine easy strategies that teachers can use to help students begin to understand what they need to know in order to summarize.
• Detailed descriptions of 60 strategies and critical thinking variations that provide students with memorable learning experiences, plus targeted support materials that assist in teaching and learning.

It's time to revitalize learning and shatter the tedium associated with summarization, and this new edition of Summarization in Any Subject can help you do just that.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416626770
Publisher:	ASCD
Publication date:	12/12/2018
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

RICK WORMELI, one of the first National Board–certified teachers in America, brings innovation, energy, validity, and high standards to both his presentations and his instructional practice, which includes 38 years of teaching math, science, English, physical education, health, and history and of coaching teachers and principals. Rick’s work has been reported in numerous media, including ABC's Good Morning America, MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, National Geographic and Good Housekeeping magazines, What Matters Most: Teaching for the 21st Century, and The Washington Post. He is a columnist for AMLE Magazine and a frequent contributor to ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine. His classroom practice is one of the showcases for ASCD's best-selling series "At Work in the Differentiated Classroom."

DEDRA STAFFORD is an educational consultant, speaker, trainer, and author. Her work has led her to speak in three international schools and more than 40 states. Much of Dedra's time is spent supporting high-risk schools in an embedded capacity. A passionate educator with a belief in the power of positive purposeful teaching, her goal is to play a small part in helping educators find and maintain their joy for education while gaining new strategies and skills to reach today’s learners. With more than 20 years in education as a former middle school teacher and district professional development specialist working with preschool through 12th grade teachers and administrators, Dedra understands the need for practical research-based strategies that can be used immediately in the classroom. Dedra is the author of Podcasting: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Podcasts and Using Them in the Classroom and coauthor of Teaching Kids to Thrive: The Other Essential Skills for Success.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Chapter 1 Making the Case for Summarization 1

Chapter 2 Summarizing Savvy 7

Chapter 3 Nine Quick Summarization Strategies 45

Chapter 4 60 Summarization Strategies 51

3-2-1 58

Acronyms 59

Advance Organizers 62

Analysis Matrices, Graphic Organizers, and Anticipation Guides 63

Backwards Summaries 75

Bloom's Taxonomy Summary Cubes 78

Blues Summary 86

Body Analogies 92

Body Sculpture 96

Build a Model 100

Call-in Summarization 104

Camp Songs 106

Carousel Brainstorming 108

Charades 110

Design a Test 111

Exclusion Brainstorming 113

The Frayer Model 114

Graphic Novel Page 116

Human Bingo 119

Human Continuum 123

Inner/Outer Circle 127

Jigsaws 129

Learning Logs and Journals 132

Line-Up 134

Luck of the Draw 138

Money Summaries 139

Moving Summarizations 141

Multiple Intelligence Summaries 144

One-Word Summaries 148

P-M-I 150

P-Q-R-S-T 153

Partners A and B 155

Point of View 157

RAFT(S) 159

Save the Last Word for Me 162

Shape-of-Meaning Spellings 164

Share One; Get One 166

Six-Word Memoirs 168

Sketchnote Summaries 171

Snap4Edu 174

Socratic Seminars 177

Something-Happened-and-Then/Somebody-Wanted-But-So 182

Sorting Cards 184

Spelling Bee de Strange 185

SQ3R 187

Summarization Pyramids 189

Summary Bali 192

Summary in 60 194

Synectic Summaries 195

T-Chart/T-List 199

Taboo® 201

Test Notes 204

Text (Content) Transformation 206

Think-Pair-Share 209

Traditional Rules-Based Summaries 211

Triads 213

Tweet This 216

Unique Summarization Assignments 218

Verbs? Change Them! 222

Word Splash 224

Conclusion 229

Appendix A Sample Texts for Summarization 231

Appendix B Summarization Practice Activities 243

About the Authors 255

Index 261

About the Authors 271