Teacher Guide: Section Two

A Student Guide To Search Engines And To Summarizing Content

Unit Overview

How To Use This Unit:

Progress Chart: Print off this handy chart and track your progress through this section (for Students) (for Teachers.)

Curriculum Ties:

Step Title

Objectives

Presentations

Activity Sheets
#1 -- I Found It, Now What?
  • Know how to reference a web site
  • Explain the dangers of plagiarism and the importance of summarizing using own words.
  • The importance of reading for meaning and understanding.
 Step 1 Activity One
#2 -- Count To 5, Then Wave Good-Bye
  • Importance of reading for meaning and understanding.
  • Steps to finding the best web site for current reading level
  • Understand the strategy: “Count to 5 -Then Wave Good-Bye.”
 Step 2 Activity Two
#3 -- KWL - Part Two
  • Recognize how planning ahead can aid in keeping on task when researching.
  • List the importance of reading for understanding, then summarizing content to address our own queries.
 Step 3 Activity Three
#4 -- Be A Reporter (The 5 W's and an H)
  • Understand that asking questions (5W's and an H) can help to better understand a web site and extract useful information.
  • Recognize that not everything on a web page is helpful information, some of it you will ignore (omit)
  • Review referencing of helpful web sites.
 Step 4 Activity Four
#5 -- 1-2-3 Look Away!
  • Recognize the strategy “1-2-3 Look Away” as being effective in summarizing web content.
  • Importance of reading for meaning and understanding.
  • Understand that through summarizing you create useful study/memory aids in the form of notes.
 Step 5 Activity Five
#6 -- Headings And Paragraphs
  • Explain how headings and titles are used to organize main ideas.
  • Realize that paragraphs are new ideas, situations or themes and contain clues such as a topic sentence for greater understanding.
  • Combining strategies including keeping a reference will help organize your findings from the web sites.
 Step 6 Activity Six

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March 18, 2006