Samantha & Komal's Summarising Learning Story

Learners: Samantha & Komal     Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 24.7.15

Learning Area: Literacy - Summarising

Learning Observed

Samantha and Komal are in the Kites learning group and selected to attend a workshop about summarising the main points of a story. Earlier in the week, we used the story called Scattercat by Lynley Dodd for another piece of learning and the girls chose to revisit this book for their summarising Capability Task. When we were working as a group, we talked about how summarising is using questions that start with who, what, when, where, how and why. In the videos below, Samantha and Komal try to use these prompts to ask each other summarising questions about Scattercat. They collaborated together to interview and film each other as evidence of their learning. Samantha and Komal displayed that they have developed their capabilities of summarising a text by asking and answering the questions they provided each other - I hope they can practise this at home!

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Ask questions that your buddy hasn’t already asked you. Use the chunks in the word to help you sound them out. Try and challenge yourself to answer the summarising questions without looking at the story book. Practise doing this at home with a parent, sibling or friend.