Improving Summarizing Skills in Children Through Literacy
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What is the focus of today’s episode on improving summarizing skills?
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hey, everybody, it's Carrie Clark, and you are listening to episode number 56 of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast. This is the podcast with resources and activities for speech therapists as well as for parents of children with speech and language delays. Today we are talking about my cell phone going off. Excuse me, just turn that off. This is real life, folks. Here we go. Today we are talking about improving summarizing skills in children using literacy activities. So we're going to be talking today about some literacy ideas that we can use to help our children who are having trouble summarizing. Maybe they are those kiddos who you ask them what they did today and they just give you a bunch of random facts that really have no
cohesion or don't really make any sense. So we're gonna talk about improving those summarizing skills and we're gonna do it through literacy, which is kind of a double bonus, because then you get to work on their literacy skills as well. Now before we get to that, I do want to mention my articulation program if you have not heard of that. My articulation program is an ebook, so it's a digital download that you can get, but it includes everything that you need to do articulation therapy. If you are a parent and you're not sure what that means, it basically means teaching your child how to say specific speech sounds correctly. So I have flashcards, I have worksheets for all the English speech sounds,
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have step-by-step guides that are um written in parent-friendly language, so parents can use it, but also speech therapists can send it home as homework. Um and it's just it's got a lot of really good information in there plus um worksheets and visuals to go with each step of the way. So if you are looking to teach speech sounds to a child and you need some more information or you need more materials, if you're getting tired of the ones you have. you can head on over to speech and language kids.com slash artic kit that's a r-t-i-c-i-t, and you can find that digital download there. All right, so let's go ahead and jump in with our information about improving summarizing skills for children using literacy.
So, um Basically, we want to start here with main idea. And if you um if you are a follower of my website or blog, then you saw last week's blog post was all about teaching main idea. So if you would like the information on teaching main idea, because that is step one for improving summarizing skills, you can go to speechandlanguage kids.com/slash episode five six, and that will take you to the show. Notes for this episode, which contains a link to last week's blog post. So the reason that we want to start with main idea is because really when we are retelling a past event or telling about a story, it's really important to know the big picture and to start with that. So imagine that a friend walks up to you and says
There were lots of people there and then we opened some presents and we had all of this cake and it was really awesome. Yeah
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Be totally lost, right? You're like, what are you even talking about? But if a friend came up to you and said, Oh my gosh, I went to the coolest birthday party last week, or oh my gosh, you'll never believe what happened to me at this birthday party I went to, then you have some frame of reference for the rest of the story. So, really, it's very important that we always start with a big picture main idea kind of concept, and then go. go into the sequence of of events or details from there. So my first step then, if I'm going to be teaching a child or if I'm going to be helping a child improve their summarizing skills, is they've got to be able to sum it up in one sentence and have that main idea put out there first.
How can I teach a child to identify the main idea of a story?
So I have last, like I said in last week's post, I broke down how to teach main idea down into the individual steps. I also made worksheets that you can download for free that will help you allow you to practice this with a kiddo. So if you go over to the speech and language kids.com slash episode five six, that link, that's gonna give you um there's a box not too far down the page where you can click on that box and get those worksheets for free.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the focus of today’s episode on improving summarizing skills?
0:00–3:43
2
How can I teach a child to identify the main idea of a story?
3:43–7:03
3
Why does Carrie recommend the articulation e‑book before the summarizing lesson?
7:03–9:35
4
What is the first step for getting a child to write a one‑sentence main idea?
9:35–13:09
5
How do I help a child sequence two events from a picture book?
13:09–15:35
6
What strategies work for sequencing three to five events using picture cards?
15:35–18:11
7
How can I guide a child to pull out important details and order them?
18:11–21:34
8
When is a summary too long and how can I teach a child to edit it?
21:34–23:46