The document discusses the challenges of teaching summarization, emphasizing the need for students to condense text into key ideas and main points. It highlights common pitfalls students encounter, like excessive or insufficient detail and copying text verbatim. The authors advocate for modeling the summarization process and providing opportunities for practice to aid comprehension skills.

1. Showing Evolving Thinking bySummarizing the Content andAdding Personal Response Lisa Lazansky-Roach & Beth Spitelli 9/22/2011

2. Bell-RingerWhy do you think summarizing is a difficult concept to teach?

3. What Is Summarizing?Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials:the key ideas

4. the main points that are worth noting and remembering.When You Ask Your Students toSummarize, What Usually Happens? they write down everything.

5. they write down next to nothing.

6. they give complete sentences.

7. they write way too much.

8. they don't write enough.

9. they copy word for word.What Did You Want Them To Do? pull out main ideas.