Summarizing Strategies

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Summarizing is a High Yield Instructional Strategy that deepens understanding and enhances retention by helping students process, organize, and reflect on what they’ve learned. Far more than a simple recap, summarizing requires students to identify key ideas, make connections, and express understanding in their own words—often using higher order thinking skills.




When purposefully placed throughout a lesson and aligned with clear Learning Goals, summarizing helps both students and teachers monitor comprehension, consolidate learning, and identify misconceptions in real-time. It is most impactful when used across the lesson, from brief, distributed checks during instruction to reflective closure tasks at the end. Whether used individually or with collaborative pairs, summarizing supports knowledge construction and prepares students to apply new learning in increasingly complex ways.



With this Summarizing Strategies professional learning, you will be able to…

Explain the purpose and impact of summarizing as a High Yield Instructional Strategy.
Identify when summarizing should occur within a lesson to maximize student understanding.
Recognize how summarizing supports Higher Order Thinking, metacognition, and retention.
Select appropriate Summarizing Strategies aligned to Learning Goals and instructional phases.
Plan opportunities for Distributed Summarizing during and after instruction.
Use student summaries as formative assessment to inform instructional decisions.
Incorporate writing to deepen students’ summarizing and critical thinking.
Support students in developing independence and accuracy in summarizing.
Differentiate summarizing strategies to meet diverse learning needs.

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