Summarizing and Note Taking Kindergarten PowerPoint

							Recommendations for Classroom
        Practice on
          Summarizing
a. Teach the “rule-based” strategy
 – Follows a set of rules that produce a
   summary
               Bev’s Sink/Float
• Important rules for sink and float

Sink              Float        What don’t we
                               need to know?
                               Color   Yes/No
Round penny      blue sponge
Long pen         long stick    Shape   Yes/No
Square magnet    round cork    Size    Yes/No
Round nickel     red sponge
       The Narrative Frame
a. Characters: the traits of the main
   characters in the story
b. Setting: the time, place, and context
   for the story
c. Initiating event: the event that starts
   the action rolling in the story
d. Internal Response: how the main
   characters react emotionally to the
   initiating event in the story
       The Narrative Frame
           (Continued)
e. Goal: what the main characters decide
   to do as a reaction to the initiating
   event (the goal they set)
f. Consequences: how the main characters
   try to accomplish the goal
g. Resolution: how the goal turns out.
     Problem/Solution Frame
•   Examples of these can be
•   Math word problems
•   Class rules or Classroom Management
•   Real-life problems/issues that you want
    them to think or reflect deeply upon
    (pollution, extinction of animal populations
    because man is encroaching on natural
    habitats, etc.)
     Reciprocal Teaching
    We Predict       We Discover
Yellow + Red =    Yellow + Red =


Yellow + Blue =   Yellow + Blue =


 Blue + Red =     Blue + Red =
Recommendations for Classroom Practice on
                       Note Taking
a. Give Teacher-Prepared Notes
      –     Model
     Teacher Prepared          Graphic           Questions
          Notes                                (Student-Led)

i.        The Basics
                         Red            Blue
 A.       Red + Blue
          =                     Purple
          Purple
ii. Characteristics
                        Red        Yellow
  Red + Yellow
 A.
= Orange
                               Orange
Recommendations for Classroom Practice on
             Note Taking
b. Teach Multiple Formats
  Word Web, Graphic Organizers, Combination
    Notes, etc.         Notes        Graphic




                                 Summary
Combination Notes for
   Kindergarten



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