1. Imagine you’re at a KMS basketball game and your friend left his/her cell phone with you while she went to the concession stand. It’s your friend’s mom, and she wants to leave a message with you. The message is fairly long and complicated. How do you make sure your friend gets the message?

2. You probably SUMMARIZED! You thought about what was important
remembered key words, and
put it all in your own words to tell your friend.

3. Use reading TOOLS, such as: rereading, slowing down, marking the text
WHEN WE SUMMARIZE, WE…
take sections of text and restate the most important idea(s) in our own words
Use reading TOOLS, such as: rereading, slowing down, marking the text
So basically, this is saying…

4. LOOK AT WHAT YOUR BRAIN DOES!
Deletes trivial material that is unnecessary to understanding.
Deletes words that repeat information.
Substitutes for a list of things with a word that describes the things in the list (ex: use “trees” for “elm, oak, and maple”)
Keeps things that are important.

5. SO BASICALLY, YOU MUST:
Delete trivial material that is unnecessary to understanding.
Delete words that repeat information.
Substitute for a list of things with a word that describes the things in the list (ex: use “trees” for “elm, oak, and maple”)
Keep things that are important.
1. Delete unnecessary things.
2. Substitute.
3. Keep main ideas.

6. Try these TOOLS to help you SUMMARIZE while you read!
Reread slowly, looking for important/repeated info
Underline/Highlight repeated words and phrases
Stop sometimes and write/draw in the margin

7. Let me show you how I summarize!
Text messaging, or texting is the common term for the sending of "short" (160 characters or fewer, including spaces, newer phones can hold up to 20 pages of 160 characters) text messages from mobile phones using the Short Message Service (SMS). It is available on most digital mobile phones and some personal digital assistants with on-board wireless telecommunications. The individual messages which are sent are called text messages or, more colloquially, texts or SMS.

8. Now you try it together with someone!
Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

9. Now, summarize what we’ve been talking about today!

10. Sources
Beers, K. (2003). When Kids Can't Read. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
Harvey, S., & Goudvis, A. (2007). Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement. Portland: Stenhouse.
Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D. J., & PollocK, J. E. (2001). Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement. Alexandria: ASCD.
Tovani, C. (2000). I Read It But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers. Portsmouth: Stenhouse.