This presentation centers in on the effectiveness of teaching summarization and note-taking strategies and offers practical integration advice.

1. Chris Winters
International Christian School

2. Advance
Organizers
Identifying
Similarities Building
& Vocabulary
Differences
Effective
Summarizing
Teaching Graphic
& Note
Organizers
Taking
Chunking
Information

3. Advance
Organizers
With 1 or 2 people
around you:
Describe your
understanding of one
Summarizing
& Note
Effective Building
Vocabulary
of these 4 elements of
Taking
Teaching
effective teaching.
Explain a way you
Chunking
integrate one Information
element.

4. What did we just do?
Advance Organizer
• Preview content
• Activate background knowledge
• Visual representation (visual)
• Allowed students to speak out loud (auditory)
• Organization and Structure

5. (Marzano, Gaddy, & Dean, 2000)

6. » Note taking
» A systematic method for recording the key concepts from a lecture, text or
other source of information (Marzano et al., 2000).
» Summary
» A brief statement conveying the gist of the text which should include the
main idea and relevant support (Boling & Evans, 2008).

7. Selection of
Core
Information
Paraphrasing
Synthesis of
Ideas
Constructed Gist
(Marzano et al., 1990)

8. Summary
A brief statement conveying the gist of the
text which should include the main idea
and relevant support (Boling & Evans,
2008).
My explanation:
A person created a summary when they take in a piece of information
and churn it up with their related knowledge in order to communicate
the heart of the information in an original way.

9. Internalization Self-awareness of
thought
Application of
intense effort
Distinguishing
essential information
(Braxton, 2009)

10. Bloom’s
Summaries
Association
Make sense of a passage Comprehend
Judge importance of text Evaluate
Construct a statement of
Synthesize / Apply
the gist
Focus the writing on the
Analyze
most essential information

11. Save the
last quote!
The Last 3 , 2, 1
Word Summarize
Summary
Tools
1 Sentence
Statue
Summary
One Word

12. Read page 146 – Vocabulary terms and phrases together
Save the last
quote!
Index Card Side A - Quote
“Expending time and resources on vocabulary
instruction, therefore, seems justified, given the
importance of vocabulary development.”
Index Card Side B - Response
Teaching vocabulary directly enriches the background
knowledge of students as they prepare to read or begin
a new lesson. When they encounter the text in
literature or the teacher’s instruction their new
knowledge will be reinforced .

13. Read page 146 – Vocabulary terms and phrases together
Save the last
quote!
Great for content areas like Science and Social
Studies!
In Literature
• Discuss reading assignments
• Connections to the story
• Describing characters
• Making predictions
Follow up by using the quote in discussion!

14. “The literature indicates that note-taking is not only an
effective learning strategy but is also the most common
practice students engage in during class” (Lee & Shute, 2009,
p. 12).

15. Webbing
Guided Combination
Notes Notes
Note
Taking

16. Self-awareness of thought
Summarizing
Internalization Apply intense effort
Distinguish important info
The Last word = acronym of word related to lesson
Types of
summaries
Save the last
quote
A SS - Science – Lit
B
Quote Great for
discussion
Response
Note taking - Guided
notes
-
-
Written summary here

17. Summarizing Face Off
3-2-1- Summarize!
Explain 3 ways you can teach students to
summarize.
3-2-1- Summarize!
Identify 2 reasons that summarizing is an effective
strategy.
3-2-1- Summarize!
Explain how you are going to implement 1 of
these strategies in your class on Monday.