summary writting
DAILY LESSON PLAN
Teacher’s Name: Class/Period: 7th Grade English
Unit/ Lesson Plan Topic: Summary Writing Date: 10/8/08
Agenda:
What is a Summary? Why do we summarize?
Summarizing Expository Text
California Content Standards: Writing Applications 2.5 Write summaries of reading materials:
a. Include the main ideas and most significant details
b. Use the student’s own words, except for quotations
c. Reflect underlying meaning, not just the superficial details.
Objectives: When asked to summarize passages from expository texts, students will be able to use a scaffolding technique to correctly identify main ideas and other essential information to include in a concise manner. Students will be able to determine what information should be excluded and the rationale for this. Additionally, with the completion of the lesson (and following day’s lesson), students will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of a majority of summaries in terms of brevity and main ideas presented.
Materials Needed: Handouts, overhead, paper and pen.
Activities:
Time
Teacher Procedures
Student Responsibilities
5 mins.
5 mins.
10 mins.
20 mins.
3 mins.
3 mins.
1) Begin with a discussion of what a summary is and why we summarize. Students and teacher openly discuss topic together and teacher will encourage student ideas and thoughts.
2) Distribute Handout 1 “Summarizing Expository Text.” Inform them that handout should be kept in binders, as they will use these as a reference/guide when summarizing later passages. Use handout as shared reading exercise. Discuss scaffolding on handout and ask questions regarding scaffolding just discussed to ensure comprehension.
3) Post overhead transparency/pass out Handout 2 and pass out Handout 2.1 “Summary of ___”. Teacher will read aloud Handout 2 to class from overhead, then ask class to come up with
Teacher’s Name: Class/Period: 7th Grade English
Unit/ Lesson Plan Topic: Summary Writing Date: 10/8/08
Agenda:
What is a Summary? Why do we summarize?
Summarizing Expository Text
California Content Standards: Writing Applications 2.5 Write summaries of reading materials:
a. Include the main ideas and most significant details
b. Use the student’s own words, except for quotations
c. Reflect underlying meaning, not just the superficial details.
Objectives: When asked to summarize passages from expository texts, students will be able to use a scaffolding technique to correctly identify main ideas and other essential information to include in a concise manner. Students will be able to determine what information should be excluded and the rationale for this. Additionally, with the completion of the lesson (and following day’s lesson), students will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of a majority of summaries in terms of brevity and main ideas presented.
Materials Needed: Handouts, overhead, paper and pen.
Activities:
Time
Teacher Procedures
Student Responsibilities
5 mins.
5 mins.
10 mins.
20 mins.
3 mins.
3 mins.
1) Begin with a discussion of what a summary is and why we summarize. Students and teacher openly discuss topic together and teacher will encourage student ideas and thoughts.
2) Distribute Handout 1 “Summarizing Expository Text.” Inform them that handout should be kept in binders, as they will use these as a reference/guide when summarizing later passages. Use handout as shared reading exercise. Discuss scaffolding on handout and ask questions regarding scaffolding just discussed to ensure comprehension.
3) Post overhead transparency/pass out Handout 2 and pass out Handout 2.1 “Summary of ___”. Teacher will read aloud Handout 2 to class from overhead, then ask class to come up with