High-Five Summary
Purpose
Students prove they understand a concept by creating a detailed summary.
Materials
Instructions
- Students draw their hand on a sheet of paper.
- Students record the following ideas in their “high-five” hand:
- Thumb: big idea of the lesson/unit
- Pointer: 3 important words
- Middle: visuals or text titles
- Ring: something important
- Pinkie: something confusing
- Palm: one-sentence summary
- Using a movement and discourse strategy such as Musical Mix-Freeze-Group, students get a partner and share their summaries, revising their original responses as appropriate.
- Observe students’ thinking and clarify/verify as appropriate.
Classroom Management
- Model the strategy using a think-aloud.
- Project the template and ask students to complete the activity on notebook paper.
Differentiation
- Promote access by thinking through the task with a supportive peer/adult.
- Provide response support by providing a word/idea bank and dictating responses to a scribe.
- Provide response support by allowing students to develop answers using a speech-to-text or word prediction support with a digital version of the High-Five Summary template.
Think It Up!
- Have students think more deeply about the concept by responding to a Think It Up prompt as an exit ticket or journal entry:
- Sequence your summary into steps. What comes first, second, third, etc.?
- Make an inference about how this concept might be assessed.
- Encourage students to use lead4ward’s Thinking Stems (English/Spanish) to frame their responses, if needed.
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