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Grade 11, Language Arts Std # 2.52: Recognize statements that adequately summarize a passage

Lesson Plans: Short But Sweet In this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students analyze and evaluate news summaries found in "The New York Times Week in Review" section, focusing on the steps and criteria necessary for summarizing a news article briefly and accurately. Story Wheels Students create and use story wheels to practice sequencing skills, summarizing a novel, visualizing story elements, and recognizing story structure. Adaptable to all age groups. Note taking The lesson teaches students to take notes from oral reading, simulating class lecture, for the purpose of extracting main idea and details and transcribing them into a summary. Junk Mail Explosion The student will be able to read direct mail advertising critically and to identify persuasion techniques. Current news articles about junk mail may be located in the Alabama Virtual Library and substituted for articles mentioned in the lesson. By Any Other Name Students read and contrast two different short stories with the same name. (Requires multiple copies of the two stories.) Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy In this lesson, students apply the B-D-A (before-during-after) reading comprehension strategy as they explore varied aspects of disability by investigating rich, interactive multimedia resources.

Resources: Group Summarizing This website, from the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, provides a description of the "Group Summaries" reading strategy. The steps for using this strategy are provided along with suggestions for adapting the strategy to different age levels. Writing A Summary This page, from Web English Teacher, provides annotated links to resources about teaching summary writing. Teachers can find lesson plans and other teaching tools related to summary writing. Englishcompanion.com Handy printable guides (at bottom of site page) Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B) Students highlight repeated words or phrases in a passage. (I) Students mark the subject and main verb of each of the sentences in a passage. (T) Working with a peer, students choose statements that summarize a passage
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