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We ask our kids to read or watch something and expect them to just be able to remember the content and apply it later during other learning activities. We can easily get caught up in the "Curse of Knowledge", assuming that because we know how to summarize and organize information, everyone does too. But our students often need scaffolding tools to help them see the difference between summarizing and retelling.
We ask our kids to read or watch something and expect them to just be able to remember the content and apply it later during other learning activities. We can easily get caught up in the "Curse of Knowledge", assuming that because we know how to summarize and organize information, everyone does too. But our students often need scaffolding tools to help them see the difference between summarizing and retelling.
Source: Glenn Wiebe, History Tech Blog
Thinking Strategies - Acquire and Extract - Somebody Wanted But So.pdfWithin the Curriculum
Within the Curriculum
The SWBS chart helps to identify the elements of a story!
Somebody = Character
Somebody = Character
Wanted = Plot
Wanted = Plot
But = Conflict
But = Conflict
So = Resolution
So = Resolution
Next, ask students to generalize each of the statements so that it is not so specific to the story.
This becomes THEME!
This becomes THEME!
SWBS works for all types of texts…poems, novel chapters, short stories, non-fiction…you can even use it to record historical and scientific events and discoveries!
Source: http://teachingrocks.ca/somebody-wanted-but-swbs-strategy/
After filling in the chart, students can transfer the components to writing a summary in paragraph form, as well as use the criteria in each column to evaluate the “best” summary. Students can also analyze multiple characters and use this chart to compare characters’ goals and conflicts within and across texts.
After filling in the chart, students can transfer the components to writing a summary in paragraph form, as well as use the criteria in each column to evaluate the “best” summary. Students can also analyze multiple characters and use this chart to compare characters’ goals and conflicts within and across texts.
Source - Blog: Kelly Harmon
Templates
Templates
SWBS-chart.pdf
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