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Summarizing Strategies

• SQ3R plus Guidelines: Reading-to-Learn
  A variation on the SQ3R technique, this strategy adds a "plus", that of asking students to relate what they are learning to their own life, and to include vocabulary terms, complete with definitions.
• Summarizing
  In Classroom Instruction that Works Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock present nine research based strategies that increase student achievement. Second on their list for having the greatest effect on student achievement is the skill of summarizing.
• Summarizing Strategies
  Summarizing strategies promote student retention of knowledge. Summarizers are designed to rehearse or proctice skills in order to move knowledge into long-term memory.
• Summarizing Tips Help Students Monitor Understanding, Clarify Thinking, and Strengthen Learning
  One benefit of summarizing is that it puts the learner in charge of their own learning. Suggestions for how to summarize, as well as tips for teachers and parents are provided.
• Summarizing: Strategies for Reading Comprehension
  Students are often asked to summarize, but often don't really understand how to do it well. This article provides suggestions for explicitly teaching and modeling this important skill.
• Summary Frames
  Outlines Narrative, Definition, Argumentation, and Problem Solution frames for preparing written responses.
• The SQ3R Method
  The SQ3R Method (Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review) is briefly explained. This method helps students to make connections with what they are reading, and therefore be better able to remember it.