Easy summaries

This book offers a methodological approach and a practical model to make summaries effectively and with ease, with help calibrated according to the real need of each student, in line with what can be defined normal inclusive teaching. Such an approach guarantees a good quality didactic intervention, both for students with disabilities, SLDs or other special educational needs and for all the others.
For each of the five main types of text — narrative, descriptive, expository, argumentative and regulative — the following are provided:
• operational model of help
• progressive preparatory exercises for acquiring these skills:
– being able to read or listen to or understand a text
– ability to split the text into meaningful parts
– ability to identify key information in each sequence or unit of a text
– ability to give a short heading to each sequence or unit of a text
– ability to summarise each sequence or unit of a text
• materials and worksheets to be used in class: summaries to complete or to be made using gradual help
• specific material for summarising texts from the Internet and for making collective summaries as a class.
The book is targeted at teachers of primary school (years 4 and 5) and lower secondary school.