one-sentence summaries say what you mean and mean what you say dr. williams

One-Sentence Summaries

Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say

Dr. Williams

Quick Check

• Raise your hand if you think you are good at summarizing something you read.

• Raise your hand if you like to summarize something you read.

• What do you like/dislike about summarizing?

• What makes summarizing easy/difficult?

Do you know what these concepts mean?

• Description

• Compare/Contrast

• Sequence

• Problem/Solution

• Cause/Effect

One-Sentence Summary Frames

• Provides you with a tool to answer the questions "Who does what to whom, when, where, how, and why?" (represented by the letters WDWWWWHW) about a given topic, and then to synthesize those answers into a simple informative, grammatical, and long summary sentence.

• http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/assess-2.htm

One-Sentence Summary Frames

• Elevator Pitch—If you are stopped in an elevator and are asked to summarize something, you need to be able to do it before the elevator ride is over.

Basis for this Activity

• Take a second and think about the stories— The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks and The Three Bears.

Description

• Find the most important details ONLY

• Create a category or label

• A ___________ is a kind of _________ that _________.

Description Practice

• Finish the following statement:

• A fable is a kind of __________ that __________.

Compare/Contrast

• Must have at least two items to summarize.

• Looks at similarities and differences.

• Focus on the important ideas.

• X and Y are similar in that they are both ________, but X ____________ while Y ______________.

Compare/Contrast Practice

• Based on what you know about The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks and The Three Bears complete the following:

• Goldilocks and the Wolf are similar in that they are both __________, but Goldilocks __________, while the Wolf _____________________.

Sequence

• Order is key.

• Must put events in chronological order.

• Good for passing of time or steps to an experiment.

• _______ begins with __________, continues with ______, and ends with ___________.

Sequence Practice

• Based on what you know about The Three Little Pigs complete the following:

• The Three Little Pigs begins with __________, continues with _______, and ends with _______________.

Problem/Solution

• States both the problem faced/presented and the way the problem was solved.

• Focus on the important details.

• _____ wanted _____, but __________ so _______.

Problem/Solution Practice

• Based on what you know about Goldilocks and the Three Bears complete the following:

• Goldilocks wanted ________, but ________, so _______________.

Cause/Effect

• Looks at the results of a certain incident, behavior, idea, etc.

• Make sure you focus on the relationship of the cause and the effect. Don’t get distracted with other information.

• ________ happens because ________ OR __________ causes ___________.

Cause/Effect Practice

• Based on what you know about Goldilocks and the Three Bears complete the following:

• The three Bears were ___________ because __________________.