Summarizing
Usage and Application: Students learn and remember new material more effectively when they have summarized it by condensing the material and labeling it.
· Advantage: Easy for teachers to facilitate. Teachers can provide a scaffold such as this:
“This paragraph is about ________ and _______. In some ways they are the same. __________. In some ways they are different. ___________.” (Ormrod, 2012, p.364). For example, teachers can make suggestions for students such as identifying a topic sentence for each section of the material, or can have students compare and discuss their own summaries.
·Disadvantage: Students may have a difficult time summarizing material because they cannot
discriminate between important and unimportant information and cannot organize elements of the material.
(Ormrod, 2012)
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