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Using Scrible to Enhance Summarization Skills

Summarization is a crucial skill that high school students need to master. It aids their comprehension and critical analysis of texts. This activity leverages Scrible, an innovative digital tool, to facilitate a structured approach to summarization, enabling students to distill texts efficiently and effectively.


Objective: Students will improve their ability to summarize texts, identify key ideas and supporting details, and use Scrible to aid their understanding and retention of material.

Learning Outcome: Students will demonstrate the ability to create concise, coherent summaries that capture the essence of the text while engaging with its key components.

Layer 1: Identifying Key Ideas

Rationale: This step encourages students to distinguish between primary and secondary information, a critical skill in effective summarization. Highlighting in Scrible allows for a visual representation of these ideas, enhancing comprehension and retention.

Activity: Students will read a short text provided by the teacher. The teacher will upload a source to your created assignment, making a copy available to your students. They can annotate to their copy(ies), leaving your original in pristine condition. Students will then use Scrible to highlight what they identify as the main ideas.


Layer 2: Extracting Supporting Details

Rationale: This helps students understand the structure of the text and the relationship between main ideas and supporting information, which is critical for creating an accurate summary.

Activity: With the main ideas highlighted, students will then identify and tag supporting details using a different color or annotation style in Scrible.


Layer 3: Drafting the Summary

Rationale: Writing a summary in their own words encourages students to process and internalize the information, enhancing comprehension and the ability to convey complex ideas succinctly.

Activity: Students will compose a brief summary in their own words, using the highlighted sections in Scrible as a guide.


Layer 4: Review and Revision

Rationale: This iterative process fosters critical thinking and self-evaluation, encouraging students to refine their summarization skills actively.

Activity: Students will review their summaries and refine them for clarity, conciseness, and coherence, using Scrible's note-taking (comment) feature to make revisions.

This activity hones students' summarization skills and familiarizes them with Scrible, a tool that enhances their digital literacy and prepares them for future academic endeavors. By breaking down the summarization process into structured steps, students learn to approach texts analytically, fostering skills essential for academic success and lifelong learning.


Standards Alignment:

*If your school or district references standards other than Common Core for writing, please reach out, and our team can provide the Scrible standard alignment for your set of standards.