Summarising


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<p><a name="summarising-overview"></a><b>Overview:</b></p>
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<p>In summarising pupils will be able to pick out the main ideas in the information and make links between them. This is a good tool for allowing the pupils to synthesise information to give the main ideas and make inferences to fill in things that are not stated.</p>
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<p><a name="summarising-thinkingskillsobjectives"></a><b>Thinking skill objectives:</b></p>
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<ul><li> Make sure you have a thinking skills objective for the lesson</li>
<li> Share objectives with pupils at the beginning of the lesson and refer to it throughout.</li></ul>
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<p>Thinking skills you can develop through summarising are:</p>
<ul><li> Reasoning</li>
<li> Information processing</li>
<li> Evaluation</li></ul>
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<p><a name="summarising-taskmanagement"></a><b>Task </b><b>m</b><b>anagement:</b></p>
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<p><b>A: Groupings</b></p>
<ul><li> 2 or 3 pupils initially.</li></ul>
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<p><b>B: Materials</b></p>
<ul><li> If you have a piece of text you may have multiple copies or laminate them in order to allow text marking to take place.</li>
<li> Model an easy/shorter example to start with.</li>
<li> Perhaps structure it into main categories to start pupils off.</li>
<li> Once the pupils have grasped the basics the structures and help can be removed so that pupils will be able to summarising the information individually.</li></ul>
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<p><b>C: Role of the teacher</b></p>
<ul><li> Try not to tell the pupils the answer</li>
<li> Use prompt questions when necessary</li>
<li> Listen to all your groups for examples of thinking to use in the Metacognitive plenary later.</li></ul>
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<p><b>D: Timings</b></p>
<ul><li> This will vary according to task, but typically will last about 10 min per page of A4.</li></ul>
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<p><a name="summarising-metacognitiveplenary"></a><b>Metacognitive plenary:</b></p>
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<p>In the Metacognitive plenary you need to include questions like:</p>
<ul><li> How did you start?</li>
<li> What did you do next?</li>
<li> What titles/groupings did you include? Why?</li>
<li> What did you find difficult?</li>
<li> Can you see a use of this elsewhere (in school/out of school)?</li></ul>
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<p><a name="summarising-examplesoflessons"></a><b>Exam</b><b>ples of lessons:</b></p>
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<p>Click on the subject button for a list of materials. Each lesson will have a brief summary of how the teacher intended it to be used and copyright free resources. In some instances the teacher concerned has indicated where the resource used might be found.</p>
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<p>Have you prepared a thinking skills lesson that has worked well for you and that you are prepared to share?</p>
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