HUG Your Text Created by Mary Barrett SIM

HUG Your Text Created by Mary Barrett, SIM Professional Developer Minneapolis, MN Presented by Pamela Leitzell, SIM Professional Developer Maryville, TN pamleitzell@earthlink. net

Hugging the text will help students … • Activate their thinking • Focus on main ideas • Think about supporting information

The Highlighting Strategy Steps: HUG H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes

Step 1: Highlight Main Ideas • maximum 20% of text • one line per section • 8 lines on average page • key concepts only • worth re-reading

Step 2: Underline Details • key words • steps in a process • definitions • names / dates

MEMORY DEVICE FOR DETAILS What details are important enough to remember? F acts I ncidents R easons E xamples S tatistics

Step 3: Generate other notes Great to do in small groups H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes

Questions Step 3: Generate other notes H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G questions enerate other notes

Opinions Step 3: Generate other notes H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G opinions enerate other notes

Predictions Step 3: Generate other notes H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G predictions enerate other notes

Connections to personal experiences Step 3: Generate other notes H ighlight main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes connections to personal experiences

Step 3: Generate Other Notes • Questions • Predictions • Connections to real life or experiences • Summarize text • Notes • Number steps • Create charts of complex information • Create visuals • ID location of ideas - sources • definitions • examples • names/dates • Other important ideas

The Highlighting Strategy Steps: BUG B ox main ideas U nderline details G enerate other notes

Let’s try a passage… “Wandering In The Wilds”

WANDERING IN THE WILDS Backpacking offers freedom found in no other type of wilderness travel. However, you must know what to expect when you hike off into the wilderness. There will be no piped water or shelters to use. There will be no tables to eat from and no grills to hold your pots and pans. There will be few trail signs to guide you. You must know how to follow a map. You will be on your own. Sometimes the main idea isn’t explicitly written in the paragraph. If students highlight key words, give it to them. Still, there are countless places you can go. Try an overnight trip to a mountain or stream. Follow an unmarked trail that seems inviting. A trial run will help to tone up muscles and show up mistakes in plans. During a short trip, you will not suffer too badly if something has been left at home. Once in a while the main idea will be explicitly stated in the first sentence! Experienced backpackers pride themselves on being able to travel light. With many, weight saving is a game. some cut towels in half and saw the handles off toothbrushes to save ounces. They measure out just the right amount of food needed and put it in plastic bags. Plastic bags are lighter than cardboard. There are dozens of tricks to save ounces that add up to pounds. There will be times when it is easier to find the main idea, and times when it is easier to find details.

Let’s try some other highlighting activities …

Highlighting Activity #1 Read the passage below. After reading each paragraph complete step #1 of the Highlighting Strategy

Highlighting Activity #2 • Read the excerpt from the Alliance for Excellent Education Fact Sheet, September 2007 titled “Dropouts in America” • Complete the steps of the highlighting strategy for paragraph #1 • Do the same for paragraph #2

A Student’s Fantasy….

Highlighting can help bring meaning to text …