Reading Strategies



Focus Lesson Planning Sheet

|Focus Lesson Topic |Summarizing with One Word Notes |

|Materials |Short article (Time for Kids, etc.) or other selection of short nonfiction text for modeling, |

| |sticky notes, copies of short article or other nonfiction text for guided practice, chart paper, |

| |markers, independent reading books |

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| |Note: The text used for the modeling portion of the focus lesson could be text that is familiar |

| |to students, such as the text used in the “What is summarizing?” lesson. This lesson also |

| |requires copies of a different short text for guided practice. |

|Connection |Yesterday we discussed summarizing. You learned that summarizing helps readers to remember and |

|Tell them what you taught them |understand what they have read. When readers summarize, they remember to tell what is important |

|yesterday. |in a way that makes sense, use their own words, and try not to tell too much. [Refer to anchor |

|( 1 minute! |chart from “What is summarizing?” lesson.] |

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|Explicit Instruction |Today, I am going to show you a strategy for summarizing. This strategy is called “one word |

| |notes,” and it will help you to remember the information that you want to include in your |

|SHOW them exactly how to do it. |summary. This strategy will also help not too tell too much in your summary. Let me show you |

|Read and think aloud while they |how I can use one word notes to summarize a text. |

|watch, or demonstrate exactly | |

|what you want them to do. |Listen while I read [or review] this article called ____. Now that I have read this article, I |

|( 5-10 minutes! |am going to think about the most important information. I think that it is important to |

| |remember…. [Think aloud and identify key information from the article.] For each important idea,|

| |I am going to write just one word on this sticky note. Writing just one word will be just enough|

| |to help me remember the important ideas that I want to include in my summary. [Model writing one |

| |word notes on a sticky note. For a short article, 5-6 key words should be enough to generate a |

| |succinct summary.] Now watch and listen as I use my one word notes to summarize the article. |

| |[Orally summarize the article to model using one word notes.] |

|Guided Practice |Now it’s your turn to try one word notes. With a partner, I would like you to read this short |

| |article called ______. After you and your partner have read the article, discuss the most |

|Ask them to try it with you, or |important ideas. For each important idea, think of just one word to write on your sticky note to|

|with a partner. |remind you of the idea. When you have one word for each important idea, practice summarizing the|

|( 3-5 minutes! |article in your own words. |

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| |[Allow time for readers to work in partnerships to practice using one word notes to summarize. |

| |This guided practice will take more than 3-5 minutes. Some teachers may want to teach this |

| |lesson over two days. In that case, it would make sense to model the first day and allow time |

| |for guided practice the second day.] |

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| |Who would like to share their one word notes summary? Can you share your thinking? [Allow time |

| |for several partnerships to share their summaries and their thinking.] |

|Send Off [for Independent |I want you to always remember that when readers summarize they remember to tell what is important|

|Practice] |in a way that makes sense, use their own words, and try not to tell too much. Using one word |

| |notes is a strategy that you can use to make notes of the most important information that you |

| |want to include in your summary. As you are reading your just right books, think about the one |

| |word notes that would help you to remember the important information from your book. You may |

| |write these notes on a sticky note. |

|Group Share | What did you notice about yourself as a reader today? |

|( 5-10 minutes! | |

Source: Strategies that Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement, Second Edition (2007) by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis, pp.181-182.

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