Summary+Activities

=**Short Activities**=


 * 3-2-1**

3 - Identify at least three new things you learned from the lesson 2 - Identify two areas in which you are still confused 1 - Identify one way you might apply what you've learned to another area of study


 * Acronyms (Group Activity)**

1. List the essential attributes of something you just learned. 2. Look at each listed attribute and identify a single term to use as a keyword for remembering that attribute. 3. Sequence the letters in an order that makes sense to create an acronym that will help you remember what you've just learned.

=**Written Activities**=


 * Luck of the Draw**

1. Students prepare a written summarization in their blogs about what was covered in class that day. 2. The next day, I pull a name from a hat and that lucky student must read his or her summarization from the previous day's lesson. 3. The rest of the class critiques the summarization with the "lucky" student facilitating the discussion.


 * One-Word Summaries**

1. Students will write one word that summarizes the lesson's topic. 2. Now explain why you chose that word. 3. As an alternative, ask the class collectively to brainstorm word candidates. 4. Students will argue for or against a word as a good one to describe the topic.


 * Share One; Get One**

1. Students will draw a 9 box matrix on a sheet of paper. 2. They will record three different concepts, facts, or skills that they recall from the lesson. 3. Students will get up from their seats and ask other students to fill in the remaining squares with concepts, facts, and skills that haven't yet been recorded on their matrix. 4. Students are allowed to fill in as many of the other students' matrices as they'd like, recording ONLY ONE concept, skill, or fact per student matrix. 5. The task is complete when all areas of each students' matrix is filled-in. 6. Students will write a coherent summary of the presentation using information recorded in their matrices. 7. Students will put the concepts, facts, and skills in logical order and rewrite the points from each square in sentence form.


 * Test Notes**

1. Tell students they'll be able to use notes during a test, as long as those notes fit on to a standard index card. 2. Reassure students that yes they can write as small as they'd like, and yes, they can include anything at all that will help them ace the test. 3. Have students put their names on the cards and collect them, handing them back out on test day.


 * Source:**

Wormeli, Rick (2005). //Summarization in any subject: 50 techniques to improve student learning//. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.