[LIT] teaching kids to pick out the important points

[CAG]

Your question makes me think of the technique of each person summarizing in 
20 words - then each small group consolidate their summarizations into 20 
words. I did this with fiction. You could adapt it for nonfiction by having 
the students pick out the salient points and summarizing those?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "beth.carlisle" <beth.carlisle at neomin.org>
To: <lit at literacyworkshop.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 7:30 PM
Subject: [LIT] teaching kids to pick out the important points


> Several weeks, months, or years ago (forgive me, it's March and I'm 
> tired), I
> remember reading about an interesting, easy, fun way to teach kids how to 
> pick
> out the important information of a piece of nonfiction text.  It seems 
> there
> were specific questions or steps to follow or they had to list as many
> important pieces of info and then choose a certain number out of that. 
> Does
> anyone know what I am talking about or did I read this somewhere else?  I
> would greatly appreciate any help!  :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Beth
>
>
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