Visual Summaries
Definition:
This strategy asks students to draw the main ideas in a text. Illustrations are a great way for students to communicate what they know and understand. There are spaces, however, to have students write very brief summaries under each image (http://www.literacyta.com/literacy-skills/visual-summary). The purpose of the Visual summary is to create a visual image, images that summarizes what has been learned from reading the text (Miller & Veatch, 2012). This may be in the form of a visual picture, storyboard, diagram, or PowerPoint slide show (2012). Visual summaries are not graphic organizers. Visual summaries show the important information and main idea learned through a visual representation (2012).
How it works (2012):
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How I will use Visual Summaries:
I like the idea of using a Visual Summary for certain sections of text. I would like to use a visual summary when talking about texts such as DNA replication in Biology and protein synthesis. I also think that making a magazine cover to represent the different Kingdoms in Biology would be a great way to process that information. I think it would be a great way for students to think aloud and then draw aloud how those procedures work. I also incorporated a storyboard template because I also thought that might be an excellent tool to use in a lab situation. I have a lab in chemistry in which the students have to come up with a procedure for making copper using other elements and I think it would be beneficial for them to draw out their procedure in a storyboard format.
Examples:
I felt this video was a good example of how you can use a visual summary to summarize sections of a text. Multiple parts of this text were summarize and while I felt it was more wordy than visual I think it is a good example of how you can use a visual summary in the class.
The second video shows how storyboards can be used to make the text come alive for students. She is educating educators in the video but shows how she uses storyboards with her students so that they will have more comprehension of the subject and also have fun while learning the content.
Writing Component: Common Core English Language Arts Standards » Science & Technical Subjects » Grade 9-10 (http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RST/9-10/)
Visual Summaries and variations of visual summaries will aid in the meeting of several common core standards in science writing for 9th and 10th grades students. In order to draw a summary students will not only need to cite specific text but they will need to understand the central ideas or conclusions of a text. In order to understand the summary of a text, students will be aided in determining the meaning key terms and other science vocabulary. To put a text in a visual summary, students will need to analyze the structure of relationships among concepts to determine where they will fit in the picture. Visual summaries and their counterparts have the students translating technical information expressed in words in a text into a visual form. Also, all the comprehension strategies I will do in my class, are to aid the students to read and comprehend their science text book both independently and proficiently.
- Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.
- Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; trace the text's explanation or depiction of a complex process, phenomenon, or concept; provide an accurate summary of the text.
- Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 9-10 texts and topics.
- Analyze the structure of the relationships among concepts in a text, including relationships among key terms (e.g., force, friction, reaction force, energy).
- Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
- By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.