1. 10 Word Summary Reader’s Apprenticeship (RA) Silent Sustained Reading (SSR)

2. BEFORE I READ…  The very 1 st thing… Locate the TITLE and AUTHOR Look for a SOURCE of PUBLICATION  Is this a book? A magazine? What kind of magazine? An internet article? From which site?  Then, “hover” over the text and look for words and names that you are not familiar with.  Finally, check for illustrations, captions, and additional information to try and “figure it out.”

3. Are There Only 10 Words? Not really…  AFTER reading your text, you will skim through again.  Identify 10 KEY or “BUZZ” words that help to illustrate the text’s main idea(s).  Write the 10 words in a list.  Next, take the 10 words and expand them into 8-10 sentences that “summarize” what you have just read about.

4. It should look something like this… Sara Johnson Mrs. Morris HLA1-4 th hour 9 September 2013 Article: “How to Create a Summary” Author: Martha Spencer 10 Word List: 1.Important ideas 2.Key Words 3.Who 4.What 5.When 6.Where 7.Why 8.How 9.Not details 10.Concise In the article, “How to Create a Summary,” Spencer suggests finding a way to answer the“w” questions. If you can easily communicate to the reader, the who, what, when, where, why, and how, then you have done your job…

5. Helpful Hints  Your expanded summary should “condense” the reading down to MAIN IDEAS and IMPORTANT POINTS.  The summary should explain to others, who have not read the text, what it is about.  Do NOT be tempted to copy sentences directly out of the text. This is plagiarism and NOT the purpose of the assignment.  The summary should be a way of explaining the reading “in your own words.”

6. The Best Way to Check your Work  You will be reading articles different from the peers immediately around you.  If you were to trade summaries with someone that read a different text, could that student understand your article without reading the whole thing?  In other words, your summary was enough to know!

7. MODEL  We will look at an article together, as a class.  Then, we will follow each of the steps that I have explained.  Then, you will work on one of your own.

8. Close & Critical Reading Informational Text 9/23/13 After you read, construct a 4 square See Sample Handout (Informational & Narrative Text) Label each square What ? How? Meaning? Meaning for Me?

9. What? Give a brief summary of the main ideas. Remember your 10 Word Summary! This covers the “gist” Write a cohesive paragraph Do NOT plagiarize

10. How?  You MUST select a minimum of 3 textual citations (proof, evidence)  Look at the summary & identify where in the text you can prove your statement.  Where did you find your information?  QUOTE the lines

11. Meaning?  Why was this written?  What is the purpose?  Who is it directed to?  What does the author have to gain by writing this?  What do readers have to gain by reading this?

12. Meaning for Me?  How does the text resonate with you?  How does the text have a connection to you?  Does the text offer some real world lesson?  How might this affect your world view?