Your question makes me think of the technique of each person summarizing in 20 words - then each small group consolidate their summarizations into 20 words. I did this with fiction. You could adapt it for nonfiction by having the students pick out the salient points and summarizing those? ----- Original Message ----- From: "beth.carlisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 7:30 PM Subject: [LIT] teaching kids to pick out the important points
> Several weeks, months, or years ago (forgive me, it's March and I'm > tired), I > remember reading about an interesting, easy, fun way to teach kids how to > pick > out the important information of a piece of nonfiction text. It seems > there > were specific questions or steps to follow or they had to list as many > important pieces of info and then choose a certain number out of that. > Does > anyone know what I am talking about or did I read this somewhere else? I > would greatly appreciate any help! :-) > > Thanks, > Beth > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
