Before we begin on this section of Marzano's High Yield Strategies...What are some things that you already do for teaching how to write summaries or to take notes? Do you teach your students how to take notes or to write summaries?
My daughter, Megan, has a hard time figuring out what is important enough to talk about when she is telling me about a book she has read or a movie she has watched. I have always said that she can't see the forest because she is so busy looking at each and every tree. So, when I ask her about a book or a movie- I tell her she has to tell me about the plot in only three sentences. This is extremely hard for her but after a while- I did notice that she was getting better at picking out the main ideas from the stories. Her book summaries are still just a recap of the entire story in her own words. We are still working on ways for her to shorten them and still get all the important information.
One way that was helpful to me as a student and what I did with my students for note taking was to provide a sheet with the information I wanted the students to know with blank spaces. As I went over the material or we came across the information in a book, an article, movie, etc. I would point it out to them and they would fill in the information on their study note sheet. After we used this for a while, they knew when they received the sheet they needed to read over it before class got started so they would recognize the information they needed to fill in the blanks. I found that to be helpful to them.
Another easy thing- I did for note taking- was to point out vocabulary in bold print. That was usually a clue that they should pay attention to. I included those in my note taking sheets as well.
What are some of the things you have done with summaries and note taking?
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