Instructional Strategy: Sentence Strips Graphic Organizer
2.4 Literacy strategies
Candidates collaborate with classroom teachers to reinforce a wide variety of reading instructional strategies to ensure P-12 students are able to create meaning from text. Description
This graphic organizer is designed to be used by elementary school students to summarize nonfiction texts. After reading a nonfiction book or passage, students write the main idea and supporting statements in their own words in the graphic organizer. Students can then cut apart the organizer, rearrange their sentence strips, and use them to create their own original summary of what they read. Analysis This strategy was designed to help students summarize text using UDL principles. This graphic organizer is different because students cut it apart and physically rearrange their writing, which helps visual learners organize their thoughts better. The lesson takes several days to complete and was designed to be used collaboratively with classroom teachers. A weakness is that it does not work well as a standalone media center lesson. There needs to be coordination with the classroom teacher ahead of time to be sure they can finish the lesson later in the classroom. Reflection It is challenging to make summarizing text a meaningful activity. My favorite aspect of this strategy is the hands-on application, which breaks up the monotony of summarizing a nonfiction text. I have not yet tried it with a group of students, so I want to have an opportunity to use it with students to get a better idea of how it could be revised or changed. |
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