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Metacognitive strategies and operational models for learning how to summarise texts

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 21x29,7

Pages: 200

ISBN: 978-88-590-0547-6

Publication date: 01/05/2014

Suitable for: Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10), Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)


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This book offers a methodological approach and a practical model to make summaries effectively and with ease, with help calibrated according to the real need of each student, in line with what can be defined normal inclusive teaching. Such an approach guarantees a good quality didactic intervention, both for students with disabilities, SLDs or other special educational needs and for all the others.
For each of the five main types of text — narrative, descriptive, expository, argumentative and regulative — the following are provided:
• operational model of help
• progressive preparatory exercises for acquiring these skills:
– being able to read or listen to or understand a text
– ability to split the text into meaningful parts
– ability to identify key information in each sequence or unit of a text
– ability to give a short heading to each sequence or unit of a text
– ability to summarise each sequence or unit of a text
• materials and worksheets to be used in class: summaries to complete or to be made using gradual help
• specific material for summarising texts from the Internet and for making collective summaries as a class.
The book is targeted at teachers of primary school (years 4 and 5) and lower secondary school.


Introduction
CHAP. 1 Making summaries
 What summaries are for
You can learn and teach how to make summaries
From the original text to the summary
Essential abilities and aids for making summaries
CHAP. 2 A practical help model for learning how to make summaries
 The logic of help and learning without mistakes
How to build and how to use the Practical help model
• Practical help model - Narrative texts
• Practical help model - Descriptive texts
• Practical help model - Expository texts
• Practical help model - Argumentative texts
• Practical help model - Regulative texts
CHAP. 3 Preparatory training for learning how to make summaries 
   worksheets
•  Knowing how to read or listen to or understand a text
•  Knowing how to divide a text into meaningful chunks
•  Knowing how to identify and highlight the main information
•  Knowing how to give a brief heading to each text sequence or unit
•  Knowing how to summarise each text sequence or unit
CHAP. 4 Making collaborative summaries in class
  Summarising a text from the Internet
CHAP. 5 Materials and worksheets to use in class: summaries to complete and to make with gradual help
  Narrative texts
Descriptive texts
Expository texts
Argumentative texts
Regulative texts