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[Music] Welcome to Targeting 
Reading Strategies: Summarizing.

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My name is Melanie Stanley.

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I teach second grade at Stevenson 
Elementary School, in Bloomington, Illinois.

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Today on the interactive whiteboard 
I had our target displayed

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and the target said that
"I can summarize text."

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So we looked at the stop sign
and it asked the questions,

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"Do I know the characters, the setting,
main events, problems, and solutions?"

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I asked the children to come
over to the carpet to listen

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to me read the story "Cat Up a Tree."

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This story was introduced to 
them on Monday, used

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to practice our previous comprehension
strategies-- predicting, monitoring,

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clarifying-- and we talked
about some questions with it.

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Then they knew that later
in the week we would be using it

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to help us with a new strategy,
summarizing.

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So I read through the story
and the children were to be thinking

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about those things that were
on the stop sign.

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After the story was read,
I asked the children

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to give me some ideas to go
with the questions on the stop sign,

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such as I asked them,
"What are the characters?"

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and I waited for some children
to respond.

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Up on the interactive whiteboard was a
story map that was not filled out so

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that they would understand what they
would be seeing when they did this

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on their own.

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And there was a completed story map
that I had filled in with answers

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that I had come up with.

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At guided reading we were reviewing a
story that we have read this week

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in our guided reading session,
and the at-level group was reading

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"Special Clothes."

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The students were taking a story map
like the one that they saw

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on the interactive whiteboard,
and they were filling that out based

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on the story in "Special Clothes."

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We had a good discussion today
about trying to figure

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out what the solution was
to the problem.

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The students knew the problem very well,
but we knew we needed to reread to go

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and find the solution.

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We didn't remember how the person solved
the problem, so that was a good lesson

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there today to find out about rereading
and using that strategy of summarizing

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to help us to know that we needed
to reread because we weren't able

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to summarize everything.

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Students are usually very good
at retelling the story

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and they can tell you on and on 
and on and on what has gone on.

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It's getting them to say,
"But what's the big picture?"

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The story map that I am using 
I like because the way

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that it's broken down:
We have the problem,

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and what I tell them is we are going
to answer the problem,

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and then we are going to go right
to the solution so that we are getting

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that out of the way
and we know what is the big thing

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and how was this solved at the end
of the story or near the end

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of the story.

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The students filled out their map
and then they went

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to their reading strategy booklet.

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The I Can Use Reading Strategies booklet
is there to help them to practice.

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It's kind of like their guided 
practice when I am not with them.

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At the guided reading table we use it
with my help, but they are also using it

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at a station during that guided reading 
practice time and they are on their own.

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They are with a book
that they have chosen that's

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at their level, and they are sitting
with their "I Can" reading strategy

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booklet to help them to remember
to predict before they start reading.

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They stick it inside the book, and 
in the middle of the book they stop

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and they monitor their reading.

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So the booklet is there kind of as 
an in-between, in between me with them,

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them on their own, and then eventually,
hopefully, they will leave me knowing

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that I know these strategies and I 
don't need to use this booklet anymore

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and I can just read fluently
and comprehend what I am reading.

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