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Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills

This document discusses teaching summarization skills to students. It defines a summary as a short statement that conveys the main ideas of a text using only the most essential information. Teaching summarization provides benefits for both students and teachers. For students, it improves reading comprehension, vocabulary, critical thinking, writing skills, and cooperative learning. For teachers, summarization provides evidence of a student's ability to identify important information and assess their comprehension level. The lesson package includes activities to practice identifying main ideas, replacing phrases, rephrasing sentences, and answering comprehension questions to teach summarization skills.

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Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills

This document discusses teaching summarization skills to students. It defines a summary as a short statement that conveys the main ideas of a text using only the most essential information. Teaching summarization provides benefits for both students and teachers. For students, it improves reading comprehension, vocabulary, critical thinking, writing skills, and cooperative learning. For teachers, summarization provides evidence of a student's ability to identify important information and assess their comprehension level. The lesson package includes activities to practice identifying main ideas, replacing phrases, rephrasing sentences, and answering comprehension questions to teach summarization skills.

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Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills

Skill: Summarising TG11 Shalini, Shahirah, Syazwani, Srimarlina

Summarising
Definition
A summary is a short statement that gives the main ideas of a text. Only the most important parts of a text are shared in a summary. To summarise a text, it is essential to recognise the main ideas.

Benefits of Teaching Summarising Skills for students


Reduce confusion Improves reading skills Vocabulary skills as students paraphrase Critical thinking skills Writing and editing skills improved Cooperative learning Provides opportunity to communicate what is importance Provides practice in decision making and sequencing

Benefits of Teaching Summarising Skills for teachers


Provides evidence of students ability to select important information Informal indicator of comprehension Reveals students ability to prioritise and sequence
Summarised from: -thinkpod.org -busyteacher.org

Lesson Package
1. Tuning In Comic - [GD] 2. Activity 1: Identifying Main Ideas (1 para + MCQ 4 qns) all F (Summary 1) [RA, IE, AFL] [Spiral progression] 3. Activity 2: Identifying Main Ideas (Passage + 2 Qns (MCQ) x 2 (1F, 1 NF) Basketball (Coloured), Break In (Summary 2) [AFL] 4. Activity 3: Practicing Vocabulary (replacing phrases with their own words) (Coloured) [AFL] (pairwork) 5. Activity 4: In Other Words (rephrasing a sentence in their own words) Non-fiction (Summary 1) [AFL] (groupwork for sunflower with teacher guidance)[learner-centredness] 6. Activity 5: Comprehension Practice Non-fiction (Pony) [EA, AFL]
1. 2. MCQ Open ended

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