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One-Sentence Summaries

Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say

Dr. Williams

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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?

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Do you know what these concepts mean?

• Description

• Compare/Contrast

• Sequence

• Problem/Solution

• Cause/Effect

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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

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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.

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Basis for this Activity

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

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Description

• Find the most important details ONLY

• Create a category or label

• A ___________ is a kind of _________ that _________.

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Description Practice

• Finish the following statement:

• A fable is a kind of __________ that __________.

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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 ______________.

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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 _____________________.

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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 ___________.

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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 _______________.

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Problem/Solution

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

• Focus on the important details.

• _____ wanted _____, but __________ so _______.

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Problem/Solution Practice

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

• Goldilocks wanted ________, but ________, so _______________.

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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 ___________.

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Cause/Effect Practice

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

• The three Bears were ___________ because __________________.


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