This document introduces C.A.S.K., an acronym for comparing, annotating, summarizing, and identifying key quotes, as a universal method for presenting information across all subjects. It emphasizes that presentation covers core skills like reading, writing, and persuasion. Each component of C.A.S.K. is then described in more detail, highlighting techniques for comparing information, annotating texts, summarizing using a "Somebody Wanted But So" framework, and including key quotes. The document stresses that teaching these presentation skills using C.A.S.K. can significantly improve student test scores.

1. Universal Presentation
Iron Chef / Rock Star Version

2. Presentation is critical to all of us:
Media Ag Mech English
Math
FFA
Music
Science
Floral
Health/PE

3. Presentation covers all CORE skills at the highest level
Reading
Writing
Summarizing
Persuading

4. An acronym
C.A.S.K.
Comparing
Annotation
Summarizing
Key quotes

5. C.A.S.K.
Comparing
Raises test scores more than any other skill - Marzano
One venn per preso?

6. C.A.S.K.
Comparing
Food English History
Big Mac Song Battles
Double Double Story Leaders

7. C.A.S.K.
Annotation
A high level skill
Essential for college
Helps to instill honesty
4 per project?

8. C.A.S.K.
Annotation

9. C.A.S.K.
Summarizing
Teach techniques!
Use the technique: S, W, B, S, T
http://wvde.state.wv.us/strategybank/Somebody-Wanted-But-So.html

10. Somebody Wanted But So
The Big Bad Wolf Pigs for dinner They hid in the brick house. He went hungry.
She died in a concentration
Anne Frank To hide from the Nazis Someone turned her in
camp.
He killed himself when
Adolf Hitler To control all of Europe The Allies fought against him
Germany was defeated.
He ran into the Caribbean
Christopher Columbus To sail to India to buy spices He claimed the area for Spain.
Islands
It later led to the electron tube,
To invent the incandescent His lightbulb blackened (the
Thomas Edison the basis of the electronics
lightbulb Edison effect)
industry
He combined science and
His father wanted him to be a
Stephen Hawking To be a mathematician math to study black holes in
chemist
the universe.

11. C.A.S.K.
Summarizing
S, W, B, S, T leads to SKILLED paraphrasing, this eliminates copy/paste
Summarizing is a TOP 5 way to raise scores - Marzano

12. C.A.S.K.
Key quotes
Require a “key quote” from an article
Require them to be noted as first or third person
Key quotes are a kind of summary
Key quotes are a State Standard

13. C.A.S.K.
Key quotes

14. Milestones
It’s a PROCESS; Teach it.
Teach it step by step.

16. Places to share:
Right in Google Docs
Slideshare.com
Docstoc.com