Title: How to write a summary

Lesson plan elaborated by: Magdalena Trysińska

Topic:

A summary, the useful skill in life.

Target group

6th‑grade students of an eight‑year elementary school.

Core curriculum

I. Literary and cultural education.

1.Reading literary works. Student:

7) discusses plot events, determines the order of events and understands their interdependence

2. Reception of cultural texts. Student:

3) determines the theme and main thought of the text,

5) distinguishes between important and secondary information in the text.

II. Language education.

8) distinguishes between synonyms, antonyms, understands their functions in the text and uses them in his/her own utterances;

9) knows and applies the principles of formal and semantic consistency of the text.

III. Creation of utterances.

1. Elements of the rhetoric. Student:

3) creates a logical, semantically complete and ordered utterance, using composition and graphic layout appropriate to a given genre form; understands the role of paragraphs in creating a whole mental utterance;

4) selects the information;

2. Speaking and writing. Student:

3) creates a reproductive and creative text plan

5) discusses the text he/she has read.

IV. Self‑study. Student:

1) perfects reading quietly and aloud.

The general aim of education

The student learns to concisely formulate his/her thoughts in both native and foreign languages.

Key competences

• communication in the mother tongue;

• communication in foreign languages;

• learning to learn;

• social and civic competences.

Learning outcomes

Student:

• replaces a group of words with one word;

• selects the most important information from the text;

• writes a decomposition plan of the text;

• titles the images perceived in the text, matches illustrations to them;

• writes a summary.

Methods / techniques

• problematic: directed conversation;

• programmed: using the computer, using an e‑textbook;

• practical: exercises concerned.

Forms of work

• uniform individual activity;

• uniform collective activity.

Lesson plan overview (Process)

Introduction

1. The teacher defines the purpose of the course, which is to learn how to formulate thoughts concisely. Gives students the criteria for success.

2. A talk – the teacher asks:

• In what situations is the ability to concisely formulate thoughts useful?

• Can you give the examples of texts that are short and concise?

If students find it difficult to give good examples, the teacher should point to text messages, dictionary and encyclopedic entries, notes, news tickers.

Realization

1. Individual work – ex. 2 and 3 in the abstract: students replace the highlighted words with one term, then compare their answers and discuss their correctness and accuracy.

2. Loud reading of J. Ratajczak's text “Osiołek na drodze” with division into roles.

3. Students arrange the event plan in the correct order (ex. 5).

4. Writing answers to questions to the text (ex. 6). Answers should be as short as possible, but exhaustive.

5. Group work: preparation of the shortest but exhaustive version of the text (orally or in writing) (ex. 7). Group leaders report the result of the group's work; class compares different versions, chooses the best one.

6. The teacher displays the summary information on the board in the abstract and indicates one of the ways facilitating summarization of the text – creation of a decomposition plan of the text.

7. Silent reading of the text: “Niemądry żółw” by Bruno Ferrero. Completion of tasks to the text (ex. 9‑11 in abstract), exercises of dependent speech.

Summary

1. The teacher asks:

• Where can you find summaries?

• What types of texts do we summarize most often?

• What can the ability to summarize text be useful for?

Homework

At home, students write a summary of the text “Niemądry żółw” pursuant to instruction 11 in the abstract.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

How to write a summary