Athans, Sandra K. and Robin W. Parente. Tips & Tricks for Summarizing Text. 2015. 64p. ISBN 978-1-4777-7583-7. Available at 372.6 ATH on the library shelves.
The way we teach reading has evolved to meet the challenges offered by the Common Core State Standards. Now, students are expected to react to what they read by creating an argument and supporting it with evidence from the text. In this series, the authors demonstrate several tips and tricks to help the reader confidently summarize a text he or she has read.
The authors present four texts to showcase their advice. In the first text, which deals with literature, , the reader examines an excerpt from Myths of the World: The Ancient Chinese and with the help of a T chart where the central themes, recurring ideas, and pivotal ideas are noted and help write a summary of what was read. The reader is then asked to read another excerpt from the same book and perform a similar action as the previous chapter.
The third and fourth texts are informational in nature, and present passages from Perspective On: The Titanic Tragedy and from The Muckrakers: American Journalism During the Age of Reform. The expert reader performs a similar technique as chapter 2 to complete a summary, and the reader is asked to do the same with the fourth and last passage.
This book thus provides the reader the opportunity to refresh their reading techniques as well as acquire new ones and examine how reflecting on their own reading skills can help them become better readers.
Other books in this series include:
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