With my students, as far as retelling, I do a lot of asking, "and then what 
happened, and then what happened, and then what happened?" as we retell books 
together, and it really does carry over. Of course, we do oral retelling, not 
written on our assessments. We have just added a written piece, actually. 
However, we can have them dictate and write their responsed for them. 

 Michele S. 




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From: Renee Keeler <[email protected]>
To: mosaic <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, December 7, 2010 9:30:53 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] summarizing


I am finding second graders this year having a really hard time with retelling 
and finding the main parts.  We have been doing a five finger retelling to get 
to the main ideas.  Easier when done orally, but with enough practice they are 
transferring to written work.  I LOVE reading workshop... but wonder how my gr. 
1 colleagues held kids accountable for showing their comprehension.  Higher 
stakes in second grade require some written responses or presentations of 
understanding.
I am glad to hear more ideas.
renee

teaching is a work of heart



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> Hi all,
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> I'm wondering on summarization that students in grade 2 are expected to do
> when they are being assessed....Do any of use Fountas and Pinnell benchmark
> or DRA?  Do these assessments ask children to summarize at the end of their
> reading?
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> How do they do it?  What type of questions/prompts do they use?
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> If any of you use other assessments that you think are particularly good--
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> summarization is really tough....
> 
> So the DRA prompts you to give the children  prompts such the one you've
> described, but never asks any questions or tells them what to put in their
> summary?  (i.e. good summaries include the main character the problem and
> the solution in the story....etc)
> 
> That is pretty vague for such a difficult skill....
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I just know that on the DRA, a second grader (levels 16-28)  by the  end of
> > the year, are asked to summarize, but it is a scaffolded summary.
> > summarize.  Summarization is a hard skill.  Kids are given words such  as,
> > in the
> > beginning, Next, then, and in the end.
> > Maxine
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> > In a message dated 11/30/2010 1:15:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > [email protected] writes:
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> > Hi  all,
> >
> > I'm wondering on summarization that students in grade 2 are  expected to do
> > when they are being assessed....Do any of use Fountas and  Pinnell
> > benchmark
> > or DRA?  Do these assessments ask children to  summarize at the end of
> > their
> > reading?
> >
> > How do they do it?  What  type of questions/prompts do they use?
> >
> > If any of you use other  assessments that you think are particularly good--
> > please  share!
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> > Thank  you!
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