Chapter 11 – Summarizing and Synthesizing Information
I would say
the biggest take away from this chapter is the way in which we can allow
students to display the most important information and merge it with their
experiences. Students should be able to use brief retellings, can tell new
information they have learned, and can ask good questions to help interpret new
info.
Summarizing
and synthesizing can greatly benefit from using authentic learning
opportunities. Students who can make connections from new material and explain
how it relates to their lives provides a great opportunity to make learning a
personal activity. Creating a close relationship between a new topic and a
student opens new routes for them to develop a deeper understanding. Retelling
a story can provide an authentic learning opportunity when the student reads a
book of great interest and contains information they are familiar with. Having
a student retell information about a passage they are uninterested in and
unfamiliar with will result in a very poor retelling.
Chapter 14 – Reading to Understand Textbooks
I think the
biggest take away from reading this chapter is that we teachers have a large
amount of knowledge and are familiar with many of the topics covered in a textbook.
We also are very good readers and have used strategies for decoding the
information that is conveyed through textbooks. The students we are teaching
have no idea what they are doing. We need to keep this difference in mind as we
work through a textbook with them.
One of the
best ways to help students learn the material from textbooks is to “front-load”
the students with information about the text before beginning. Making connections
from the lives of the students to the subject matter is critical in building
their foundation to learn from. Whenever covering new material from a textbook,
we must bring up the prior knowledge and background experience of the students
to help them begin to make connections.
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