Summarising

Experiential Learning:
- Learners read a variety of texts, including extracts from Core Literature books and answer summary questions on them.
- Working in mixed ability/mixed gender groups, learners collaboratively read the introductory and concluding paragraphs of a given text to predict what the text is about.
- Learners critically read the whole text closely to gain a better understanding of the text.
- In response to probing questions, learners analyse and filter the silly details of each paragraph from the important details.
E.g., Which sentence in this paragraph do you think carries the message of the paragraph (the topic sentence)?
- Which sentences explain the topic sentence or give examples of what the message of the topic sentence is? Are there some sentences in the paragraph that are not?
- Based on this analysis, learners summarise paragraphs into several sentences.
- Give learners the opportunity to practise answering a variety of summary questions this way.
- Group leadership should be assigned to both male and female members to enable learners challenge traditional gender roles.
Teaching and Learning Resources:
- Copies of a variety of texts for collaborative annotation activities
- A variety of texts including drama and poems
- A variety of texts (informational and fiction) of varied length and levels of difficulty.
- Informational texts should be drawn from STEM and other cross-curricular fields.
- A variety of texts for practising summarising including extracts from the Core Literature set books (texts should be devoid of gender bias language to enable learners to embrace gender equality)
Assessment (3.2.2.AS.2). The document marks these depth-of-knowledge levels for this indicator: Level 2 Skills of conceptual understanding; Level 3 Strategic reasoning; Level 4 Extended critical thinking and reasoning.