Writing: Summarizing and Note Taking
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| Writing: Summarizing and Note Taking |
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Description:
| These sites have various techniques that help students to acquire summarizing and note taking skills. Includes a interactive tutorials, exercises, worksheets, videos, and lesson plans. There is a link to eThemes Resource on Reading Strategies for Elementary Students. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5 |
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Resource Links:
| Study Skills: Taking Notes in Class
Read what you should do before, during, and after class to be good note taking.
Note-Taking Skills
This page provides a guideline for note-taking including finding major points in lecture, form of note-taking, and way to reduce and streamline notes.
Note Making Organizer
This is one of suggested format, a combination of visual organizer and full sentence composition, for students to use when taking notes.
Summarizing Strategies
This page provides techniques for teachers and parents to teach young readers about summarizing strategies for comprehend informational writing. Note: This site includes ads.
Activities for Summarizing Strategies
This site includes various activities for students to practice summarizing strategies. Worksheets are included.
ReadingQuest Strategies: Summarizing
This page has suggested activities for teachers to teach students about summarizing strategies. Worksheets are included.
ReadQriteThink: Notetaker
This is an interactive outline tool for note taking and organizing your writing.
ReadQriteThink: Fact Fragment Frenzy
This is an interactive tutorial for students to learn about what information to include in a summary or note taking. It offers guidelines on selecting pertinent facts from reference materials.
Tips for Writing a Summary
This page includes some tips for writing a summary.
A to Z Teacher's Stuff: Summary, Note Taking, Main Idea & Details
Students can practice summarizing and note taking from oral reading with this lesson plan. NOTE: This site contains ads.
Paired Summarizing
In this activity, students can work together to elaborate on their original summarization of passages they have just read.
After Reading: Determining Main Ideas and Summarizing
Here is a series of videos and activities to help students identify main ideas and summarize what they have read.
Summarizing
These two narrations help clarify the concept of summarization. Explore the related sequences for activity ideas and handouts.
Into the Book: Learning Objectives for Summarizing
Watch this series of videos to learn how to identify main points and summarize what they have read. The link at the bottom of the page leads to lesson activity ideas to help students learn to summarize.
BBC Skillswise: Summarising
This site has resources to help improve your summarizing skills, including fact sheets, worksheets, an interactive game, and a quiz. NOTE: Younger American students may be confused by British spelling.
CBBC News: Summarising
Practice summarizing these news stories. NOTE: Younger American students may be confused by British spelling.
eThemes Resource: Reading Strategies for Elementary Students
These websites contain reading strategies to help elementary school students become good readers. Some websites simply list strategies and some include activities to help students learn. One website compares good reading with poor reading. Some websites are written for students who are having trouble learning to read.
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Education Standards:
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AL Standards:
4.3, 3.3, 5.3, 5.8, 12.4, 2.6, 4.10
AR Standards:
OV.2.3.2, R.9.3.12, R.9.3.13, OV.2.4.1, W.5.4.9, R.9.4.12, IR.12.4.7, W.5.5.5, R.9.5.11, R.9.5.19, IR.12.5.6
AU Standards:
TS2.2.5, RS2.5.1, WS2.9.5, TS3.1.9, TS3.1.6, TS3.2.1, TS3.2.3, RS3.6.1, RS3.6.5, WS3.9.5
DE Standards:
2.3a.1.d, 2.3c.12, 2.4d.2, 2.4e.3, 3.1a2.6, 1.3.3.a.2.2, 1.5.4, 1.7.11, 2.3a.1.d, 2.3c.8, 2.3c.10, 2.4d.2, 2.4e.4, 3.1a2.6, 1.3.3.a.2.2, 1.3.5.a.5, 1.3.5.b.4, 1.5.4, 1.7.11, 2.3a.1.d, 2.3c.8, 2.3c.10, 2.4d.1, 2.4d.2, 2.4e.4, 3.1a2.6, 3.1a2.10
ME Standards:
D.2, B3.a, E2.c, B3.a, E2.c, A2.b, A3.c, B3.a, E2.c
MO Standards:
W.3.B.1, W.3.B.1, R.1.G.g, R.1.H.i, R.1.G.g, R.1.H.i, R.1.G.g, R.1.H.i, W.3.A.c
NV Standards:
3.3.9.3, 4.3.5.4, 6.3.4.2, 6.3.9.2, 7.3.1.5, 3.4.9.3, 4.4.5.4, 6.4.4.2, 6.4.9.1.d, 7.4.1.3, 3.5.9.3, 4.5.5.4, 6.5.4.2, 6.5.9.1.d, 7.5.1.4
OK Standards:
A.4.3.a, A.4.3.c, A.6.2.c, A.5.2.b, B.2.4.f, B.2.6, A.3.3.a, A.5.2.c, A.5.2.d, B.2.5.f, C.2.7
UT Standards:
7.2.g, 7.2.g, 7.2.g
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