Transcript Please complete the Collins Writing self reflection rubric

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To Learn an instructional strategy for effective teaching and
learning across all content areas.
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Define and implement Collins’ Ten Percent Summary
Research
• A landmark study, Writing Next (2007), writing summaries improves
student writing skills
• Researchers at Mid-continent Research for education and Learning,
identified nine instructional strategies most likely to improve student
achievement across all content areas and across all grade
levels…Summarization was #2 on this list
Classroom Instruction That Works, by R.J. Marzano, D. J. Pcikering, and J. E. Pollock, 2001
Let’s define the characteristics of a summary.
• Summaries are significantly shorter than the original
• Summaries follow the organizational pattern of the original
• Summaries include the main ideas
• Summaries do not include the opinion of the person who wrote the
summary
• Summaries paraphrase the original authors’ words
Collins’ Ten Percent Summary
• Specific type of summary
• Summary of an article that is only 10% of the original length
• Best used to condense nonfiction or expository writing that is
between 500-2,000 words long
• Main ideas and important details in writer’s own words.
• Clear, accurate information with NO opinion.
• Promotes greater comprehension and can be used to assess learning
What is an FCA?
• Focus Correction Areas (FCA)
FCAs were cited in the meta-study Writing Next as a BEST practice in
writing instruction
• FCAs are a powerful tool to target areas of improvement
• FCAs allow teachers to grade papers quickly and efficiently
• FCAs are the rubric for scoring the writing
• Focus Correcting is a selective approach to grading student writing that
allows students to concentrate on a few growth areas at a time out of
hundreds of possibilities.
FCAs for the Ten Percent Summary
• S“T” A r T ( Source, Title, Author, right verb, Topic) ___/20pts.
• Includes ______ to ______ main points in approximately 10% of the words
___/60pts.
• The 3rd FCA is a focus area of your choice. Examples: embedded quotations,
vocabulary, no more than 4 words in a row taken from original text, etc. ___/20pts.
• Conventions are NOT recommended as an FCA for Ten Percent summaries,
unless you are adding a 4th FCA
• Students should write these three FCAs at the top of their paper with the point total