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Somebody Wanted But So What Works!
Summarizingis one of the hardest strategies to teach and for students to learn. Many students will retell the text almost word for word when asked to give a summary.
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In order for students to learn the difference between a retelling and a summary, teachers must model, model, model summarizing often. According to Dr. Jan Richardson, when we ask our students to summarize they
- write too much or not enough
- do not capture the most important ideas
- copy word for word from the text
- do not understand the vocabulary "brief"
- do not know the difference between a retelling and a summary
A summary is a higher level response than a retelling in a retell, students retell as much as they can recall from the text but in a summary they have to synthesize the text and condense it so that they only highlight the key points using key words and phrases from the text.
The Somebody-Wanted-But-So (SWBS) format is a gre