These fun Summarising Chatterboxes are the perfect way to create engagement among your students as they develop their summarising skills. Students simply partner up and use the chatterbox as a discussion prompt to summarise a text they have read.
This task can be used after reading a whole class text or an independent/guided reading book response. It’s a great tool to send home to practise with also.
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
Use the worksheet as a prompt for students to write their own detailed summary of the text.