Storm Into Summarization Reading to Learn Rationale: The goal
for this lesson is to have students read for comprehension and
begin to use summarization strategies. Skilled readers have
learned to cutout what is not important in a particular text and
focus on the intended zoning in on context clues. Students will
do this by reading passages hurricanes and marking out the text
in which they find un-important as focus on the key elements
that deal with hurricanes. “Hurricane Hits Louisiana”
“Hurricanes” article and assessment KL poster-hurricane facts
map of United States *First I will say to students: “Today we
are going to practice reading on our own to gain information
about hurricanes.” I will ask “Can anyone share something they
already know about hurricanes to share with the class?” Once a
few of the students have shared what they know. We will add
those facts to a KL chart under the column “K”(what we know). I
will encourage all students to use what they know to add more
information later. * I will then s