Writing: Summarizing and Note Taking

These sites have various techniques that help students to acquire summarizing and note taking skills. Includes a interactive tutorials, exercises, worksheets, videos, and lesson plans. There is a link to eThemes Resource on Reading Strategies for Elementary Students.

Grades

• 3,
• 4,
• 5

Links

• ReadWriteThink: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy

  This lesson explains how to instruct students to read paragraphs and take notes. A downloadable chart is provided.

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• How to Write a Summary of a Non-Fiction Text

  This video clearly demonstrates how to take notes and write a summary of a non-fiction article.

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• ReadWriteThink: "Fact Finding Frenzy"

  This brief video demonstrates the interactive site on note-taking on ReadWriteThink.

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• WebEnglishTeacher: How To Paraphrase

  The links demonstrate how to paraphrase passages for note-taking and summarizing articles in the student's own words. Note: This site contains advertising.

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• Note-Taking Skills

  This page provides a guideline for note-taking including finding major points in lecture, form of note-taking, and way to reduce and streamline notes.

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• Activities for Summarizing Strategies

  This site includes various activities for students to practice summarizing strategies. Worksheets are included.

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• ReadingQuest Strategies: Summarizing

  This page has suggested activities for teachers to teach students about summarizing strategies. Worksheets are included.

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• ReadWriteThink: Notetaker

  This is an interactive outline tool for note taking and organizing your writing.

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• ReadWriteThink: Fact Fragment Frenzy

  This is an interactive tutorial for students to learn about what information to include in a summary or note taking. It offers guidelines on selecting pertinent facts from reference materials.

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• Paired Summarizing

  In this activity, students can work together to elaborate on their original summarization of passages they have just read.

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• Into the Book: Learning Objectives for Summarizing

  Watch this series of videos to learn how to identify main points and summarize what they have read. The link at the bottom of the page leads to lesson activity ideas to help students learn to summarize.

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• eThemes Resource: Reading Strategies for Elementary Students

  These websites contain reading strategies to help elementary school students become good readers. Some websites simply list strategies and some include activities to help students learn. One website compares good reading with poor reading. Some websites are written for students who are having trouble learning to read.

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Education Standards

• AU
  • RS2.5.1
  • RS3.6.1
  • RS3.6.5
  • TS2.2.5
  • TS3.1.6
  • TS3.1.9
  • TS3.2.1
  • TS3.2.3
  • WS2.9.5
  • WS3.9.5
• AL
  • 12.4
  • 2.6
  • 3.3
  • 4.10
  • 4.3
  • 5.3
  • 5.8
• MO
  • R.1.G.g
  • R.1.G.g
  • R.1.G.g
  • R.1.H.i
  • R.1.H.i
  • R.1.H.i
  • W.3.A.c
• ME
  • A2.b
  • A3.c
  • B3.a
  • B3.a
  • B3.a
  • E2.c
  • E2.c
  • E2.c
• NV
  • 3.3.9.3
  • 3.4.9.3
  • 3.5.9.3
  • 4.3.5.4
  • 4.4.5.4
  • 4.5.5.4
  • 6.3.4.2
  • 6.3.9.2
  • 6.4.4.2
  • 6.4.9.1.d
  • 6.5.4.2
  • 6.5.9.1.d
  • 7.3.1.5
  • 7.4.1.3
  • 7.5.1.4
• OK
  • A.3.3.a
  • A.4.3.a
  • A.4.3.c
  • A.5.2.b
  • A.5.2.c
  • A.5.2.d
  • A.6.2.c
  • B.2.4.f
  • B.2.5.f
  • B.2.6
  • C.2.7
• DE
  • 1.3.3.a.2.2
  • 1.3.3.a.2.2
  • 1.3.5.a.5
  • 1.3.5.b.4
  • 1.5.4
  • 1.5.4
  • 1.7.11
  • 1.7.11
  • 2.3a.1.d
  • 2.3a.1.d
  • 2.3a.1.d
  • 2.3c.10
  • 2.3c.10
  • 2.3c.12
  • 2.3c.8
  • 2.3c.8
  • 2.4d.1
  • 2.4d.2
  • 2.4d.2
  • 2.4d.2
  • 2.4e.3
  • 2.4e.4
  • 2.4e.4
  • 3.1a2.10
  • 3.1a2.6
  • 3.1a2.6
  • 3.1a2.6

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Created: November 06, 2006 at 10:28 | Updated: April 02, 2013 at 20:04