Example: Helping scaffold their understanding of what is being read by: Finding key words/phrases Text highlighting, underlining or writing on a sheet alongside the text. Decide on those words which are crucial to the content. Summarising Find a key sentence to summarise each paragraph. Students put these ‘main ideas’ together to create a précis (summary). Deleting Leave out unimportant sentence creating words (e.g. ‘and’, ‘the’) as notes do not need to be in sentences. Leave out redundant material (e.g. repetition, unneeded details). Younger and less able pupils may need to cross out this redundant material, initially. Substituting Combine lists or groups of items when possible (e.g. ‘apples, pears and grapes’ could be written as ‘fruit’). Abbreviating
Example: Helping scaffold their understanding of what is being read by: Finding key words/phrases Text highlighting, underlining or writing on a sheet alongside the text. Decide on those words which are crucial to the content. Summarising Find a key sentence to summarise each paragraph. Students put these ‘main ideas’ together to create a précis (summary). Deleting Leave out unimportant sentence creating words (e.g. ‘and’, ‘the’) as notes do not need to be in sentences. Leave out redundant material (e.g. repetition, unneeded details). Younger and less able pupils may need to cross out this redundant material, initially. Substituting Combine lists or groups of items when possible (e.g. ‘apples, pears and grapes’ could be written as ‘fruit’). Abbreviating