To Learn an instructional strategy for effective teaching and learning across all content areas. Define and implement Collins’ Ten Percent Summary

Research A landmark study, Writing Next (2007), writing summaries improves student writing skills Researchers at Mid-continent Research for education and Learning, identified nine instructional strategies most likely to improve student achievement across all content areas and across all grade levels…Summarization was #2 on this list Classroom Instruction That Works, by R.J. Marzano, D. J. Pcikering, and J. E. Pollock, 2001

Let’s define the characteristics of a summary. Summaries are significantly shorter than the original Summaries follow the organizational pattern of the original Summaries include the main ideas Summaries do not include the opinion of the person who wrote the summary Summaries paraphrase the original authors’ words

Collins’ Ten Percent Summary Specific type of summary Summary of an article that is only 10% of the original length Best used to condense nonfiction or expository writing that is between 500-2,000 words long Main ideas and important details in writer’s own words. Clear, accurate information with NO opinion. Promotes greater comprehension and can be used to assess learning

What is an FCA? Focus Correction Areas (FCA) FCAs were cited in the meta-study Writing Next as a BEST practice in writing instruction FCAs are a powerful tool to target areas of improvement FCAs allow teachers to grade papers quickly and efficiently FCAs are the rubric for scoring the writing Focus Correcting is a selective approach to grading student writing that allows students to concentrate on a few growth areas at a time out of hundreds of possibilities.

FCAs for the Ten Percent Summary S“T” A r T ( Source, Title, Author, right verb, Topic) ___/20pts. Includes ______ to ______ main points in approximately 10% of the words ___/60pts. The 3 rd FCA is a focus area of your choice. Examples: embedded quotations, vocabulary, no more than 4 words in a row taken from original text, etc. ___/20pts. Conventions are NOT recommended as an FCA for Ten Percent summaries, unless you are adding a 4 th FCA Students should write these three FCAs at the top of their paper with the point total