Wednesday, January 23, 2013

SWBST Strategy (Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then)

Are your students having trouble summarizing? Need a reading strategy that will help your students write a well-developed summary of a story? Asking students to summarize reading requires them to think at the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, such as analysis and synthesis.

Well, try the SWBST strategy. This strategy can be used to help students understand plot elements such as conflicts and resolutions. It allows the student to summarize the elements of a story and develop the summary into a retelling of the story. It can be used as a “during reading” or “after reading” strategy.

The writer first makes a brief note outline of the important elements based on/utilizing the SWBST graphic organizer. Then the writer expands the notes into five complete sentences which summarize the story.

You can take any story your students are reading and have them complete a SWBST graphic organizer. How about starting with their favorite movie or TV show!!!
SWBST

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