![]() Instead all the words are already there, and they are just using their critical thinking skills to determine what is most important. The benefit of this activity is that students do not have to come up with their own words to summarize the article. Next they use the marker to black out any text that is not critical, leaving behind just the main ideas.They are instructed to read the article and decide what text is critical to the main point of the article and what text is not.Students are given a magazine article and a black marker.I really liked the idea, but also felt it could be made even better with a Google Docs technology twist. ![]() Recently I came across a creative technique called “ Text Reduction Strategy” ( see the article here by Andrea Heick at TeachThought). There are many excellent practices that can help students develop these abilities. Some key goals for literacy are reading comprehension, being able to identify main ideas, and summarization skills.
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