10 Word Summary Readers Apprenticeship RA BEFORE I

10 Word Summary Reader’s Apprenticeship (RA)

BEFORE I READ… o The very 1 st thing… n n o o Locate the TITLE and AUTHOR Look for a SOURCE of PUBLICATION o Is this a book? A magazine? What kind of magazine? An internet article? From which site? Then, “hover” over the text and look for words and names that you are not familiar with. Finally, check for illustrations, captions, and additional information to try and “figure it out. ”

Are There Only 10 Words? Not really… o o AFTER reading your text, you will skim through again. Identify 10 KEY or “BUZZ” words that help to illustrate the text’s main idea(s). Write the 10 words in a list. Next, take the 10 words and expand them into 8 -10 sentences that “summarize” what you have just read about.

It should look something like this… Sara Johnson Mrs. Lichocki LA 1 HR 1 18 September 2013 Article: “How to Create a Summary” Author: Martha Spencer 10 Word List: 1. Important ideas 2. Key Words 3. Who 4. What 5. When 6. Where 7. Why 8. How 9. Not details 10. Concise In the article, “How to Create a Summary, ” Spencer suggests finding a way to answer the“w” questions. If you can easily communicate to the reader, the who, what, when, where, why, and how, then you have done your job…

Helpful Hints o o Your expanded summary should “condense” the reading down to MAIN IDEAS and IMPORTANT POINTS. The summary should explain to others, who have not read the text, what it is about. Do NOT be tempted to copy sentences directly out of the text. This is plagiarism and NOT the purpose of the assignment. The summary should be a way of explaining the reading “in your own words. ”

The Best Way to Check your Work o o o You will be reading articles different from the peers immediately around you. If you were to trade summaries with someone that read a different text, could that student understand your article without reading the whole thing? In other words, your summary was enough to know!

MODEL o o o We will look at an article together, as a class. Then, we will follow each of the steps that I have explained. Then, you will work on one of your own.