Reading Comprehension Retelling, summarizing The Three Little Pigs! Using Graphic Organizers created with PowerPoint Presentation. Ages 8 to 12 Overview: This lesson will help students develop organizational strategies to increase reading comprehension in the area of retelling and summarizing by creating and using graphic organizers. Tools: Intel-powered classmate PC (CMPC) or any PC with word and paint software that can create graphic organizers, one per student or two per computer working as a team, PowerPoint Presentation, Reading material The Three Little Pigs online at the International Children s Digital Library http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/bookreader?bookid=husthre_00970005&twopage=true&route=simple_133,169_0_three%20little%20pig s_english_11&size=0&fullscreen=false&pnum1=1&lang=english&ilang=english Or book of your choice that would work well to show and ending for a summary. Outcome: The final product will be a graphic organizer that students will be able to use to retell and then summarize a piece of literature. Instructional Plan (4 Days, 1 hour per day): Description: Students will be able to create a graphic organizer Flow Map to use in retelling and then summarizing a piece of literature. Students will print their graphic organizer and use as a prompt to orally summarize the piece of literature in small groups. Introduction (teacher): The use of graphic organizers helps students to organize their thoughts. Students often have problems summarizing because they want to include all the details resulting in a retelling instead of a summary. To summarize a piece of literature students will create and use a series of parallel flow maps (many boxes) to retell the story and then move to summarizing by combining their retelling into three boxes (, and end of the story). Your students need to have basic computer skills of mousing, Students can work at computers individually or in groups of two (a form of work to be adapted to the specific groups of students).
Introduction (Student): First, students and the teacher will read the story The Three Little Pigs aloud, which is available online at online at the International Children s Digital Library. http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/bookreader?bookid=husthre_00970005&twopage=true&route=simple_133,169_0_three%20little%20pig s_english_11&size=0&fullscreen=false&pnum1=1&lang=english&ilang=english After reading the story have students turn to a partner and retell the story in their own words orally. Walk around and observe how much or how little detail is being used to retell the story. Activity: Day 1 Create a Graphic Organizer to retell the story The Three Little Pigs 1. Open Powerpoint. At Home tab choose Blank slide and save as The Three Little Pigs student name to documents folder. 2. Insert text box. Click on Insert Tab Text Box then click onto slide. Type student name and put in upper left or right or left corner of slide (depending on teacher preference). Create another Text Box and Type in the title and author/illustrator of the story. In this case it is The Three Little Pigs illustrated by Andrea Petrlik Huseinovic 3. Create graphic organizer At the Home Tab click on Shapes and choose a box shape. Then click onto the slide. A box will show up. Now double click on the box. You will get other options for Shape Styles. Choose a style as below. Teachers can choose color frames depending on your writing structure. Example: If you are implementing Step Up to Writing you might want to have students choose a orange frame representing details. Next, click inside the box and choose the font size and style. Your box is now ready to be duplicated.
Choose the box (note the circles at each corner and top and bottom). Now use keys Ctrl + D. This will duplicate the box. Do this as least 5 times to create 5 boxes. Move retell boxes side by side in a flow map (chart) style as shown below by clicking and dragging. Next we will connect each box to create a directional flow. While in the format tab choose the arrow shape. Now click on the first box at a side dot and drag to the next box. The dots will turn red. Attach to one of the side dots. This will connect the boxes even if you move the box around. 4. Type in your retell details in each box as show below expanding, moving and adding new boxes as needed. At this point most students will have too many boxes. This is OK. The next steps will help students to decide on what parts are the beginning, middle and end of the story by moving and disconnecting some of the boxes and adding 3 ovals to represent this summary. Finish typing the retell in Day 2. Day 2 Finish typing in the retell, moving, rescaling and making more boxes as needed. To move any box just click on it so you see the green button on top. That tells you it is ready to drag and drop, enlarge or shrink (rescaling). Finish typing your retell of the story. Save your work often! Use the Edit undo whenever necessary too!
Day 3 Learning to move from Retelling to Summarizing First have students open their PPT and add a new blank slide to their presentation. Students will reread their retell and decide what happened at the very beginning of the story? What was the middle part of their story? What was the ending? Now, find those beginning details and group them as pictured below using a drag across selecting the boxes (pictured as a blue box). Once the boxes are chosen as below, copy paste them onto the next blank slide, using Ctrl + C to copy, then Ctrl + V to paste. Continue to copy and paste, moving boxes to the next page grouping by and End. Ending with a final product similar to the one below. Each student s will be a little different. But the same overall idea of and end should be the same. At our school we color code our paragraphs using green for Go (the beginning, Orange for Details (middle of story or paragraph) and Red for Stop (the end of the story or paragraph. Green could then be added as a conclusion or lesson learned.
Day 4 Students share their summary using their graphic organizers in a small groups Have students break into groups of 3 and share out their summaries. They can either print their graphic organizers or share from their computers. Teacher should monitor these groups and take informal notes Teacher could then use the Suggested Questions below to further evaluate the project. Students could answer these Suggested Questions in their small group and share out their group s responses. Evaluation: 1. Have students save their work and send to the teacher for evaluation. 2. Did the student understand what the and end entails? 3. Did they put in too much detail in the retell? 4. Was the student able to regroup for and end? 5. Was the student able to work with the PowerPoint software? 6. Does the student have the basic skills to easily do this task? 7. Teacher can use the Rubric below which was created using Rubistar at http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Conclusion: With this basic lesson you can expand to any story and any idea. You can also use this same lesson to brainstorm their own story using and end graphic organizers. This works best for fictional pieces, or personal narratives. Have students share their graphic organizers in small groups. Suggested Questions for project evaluation by students: Have students discuss how using this process helped them in understanding. What was the best part about this project? What was the hardest part about this project? What could they do better next time?
Reading - Analyzing Information : Summarizing Using a Graphic Organizer Teacher Name: Mrs. Schubert Student Name: CATEGORY 4 3 2 1 Summarization The student shows the beginning, middle and end of a The student shows at least 2 parts, the The student shows at least 1 part, the The student does not show and uses too much detail describing the beginning, middle and end of Identifying Details Appropriate Quanity of Information/Detail s PowerPoint Software Use Basic Computer skills Student recalls several details for each part of the The Student was able to extract appropriate amount of information/details including problems and solutions without retelling the whole story able to work with the PowerPoint software to create a graphic organizer with ease. The student has the basic skills to easily complete this task using mousing, Student recalls some details for each part of the The Student was able to extract appropriate amount of information/details without retelling the whole story able to work with the PowerPoint software to create a graphic organizer with some help from teacher or peers. The student has the basic skills to complete this task with some support, using mousing, Student recalls very few details for each part of the The Student was unable to extract appropriate amount of information/details without retelling the whole story and used too much detail. able to work with the PowerPoint software to create a graphic organizer with much intervention from teacher and peers. The student has the basic skills to complete this task with much intervention, using mousing, a Student cannot retell details with accuracy. unable to summarize and used too much detail, retelling the story in whole. Was the student able not to work with the PowerPoint software on his/her own and needed help in most aspects The student does not have the basic skills to complete this task using mousing,