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MAGNET SUMMARIES
Overview:
Magnet
Summaries (Buehl, 1993) involve the identification of key terms or
concepts—magnet words—from a reading.
Students then use these magnet words to organize important
information that result in summaries in their own words.
Steps:
1.
Instruct students to read a short portion of their text assignment,
looking for a key term or concept that the details in the passage seem to
“stick” to.
2.
Solicit possible magnet words (put on board/overhead/post-it notes)
3.
Ask students to recall some of the important details from the
passage that are connected to the magnet words.
4.
Individually or in cooperative groups, students then generate a
summary sentence using the magnet word and the supportive details.
Recommendation:
magnet word can be placed on a 3X5 card and then surrounded by
supporting detail. A reading
assignment may be represented by 5-6 magnet words per
3X5 card. Thus a text
summary would be developed from the 5-6
3X5 magnet cards.
(Buehl,
1993)
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