Selective Highlighting
Background
Selective Highlighting/Underlining is used to help students organize what they have read by selecting what is important. This strategy teaches students to highlight/underline ONLY the key words, phrases, vocabulary, and ideas that are central to understanding the reading.
Benefits
Selective Highlighting/Underlining is a flexible strategy that may be tailored to fit various types of information, and different skill-levels. You can employ the selective highlighting/underlining for many different instructional purposes (i.e., key vocabulary; main ideas). This strategy can also be integrated with the use of technology and electronic information such as eBooks (see example below). As students study, selective highlighting/underlining helps them learn to pay attention to the essential information within a text.
Create and use the strategy
Introduce students to the Selective Highlighting/Underlining strategy and discuss the purpose of the activity (i.e., focus on vocabulary, main ideas, etc.). Then model the procedure to ensure that students understand how to use Selective Highlighting/Underlining. Give students time and means to practice the technique and reinforce successful performance. Monitor and support students as they work.
Teacher should ask students to:
- Read through the selection first.
- Reread and begin to highlight main ideas and their supporting details.
- Highlight only the facts which are important or the key vocabulary not the entire sentence.
- After highlighting, look at what they have highlighted and summarize what they read.
- Take what was highlighted and write a summary paragraph.
Teachers may wish to have students use various colors of highlighters to identify main ideas from details (e.g., use orange to represent main ideas and yellow to represent supporting details).
When using an eBook, teachers should ask students to:
- Read through the selection first.
- Reread and select a portion of the text that the student wishes to highlight by highlighting or changing the font of the text OR using text boxes for comments.
- From the menu select the add text box option.
- Type in the comment into the text box and click anywhere outside the text box to finish.
- Summarize what they read by using the highlighted text or text boxes to write a summary paragraph.
Exercise 1 - Read the story She's Only My Sister by Hendrick and answer the following questions below.
She's Only My Sister
by Kris Hendrick
My sister and I never seemed to get along. Though we shared a room, our conversations often turned to arguments or cold silence.
We never seemed to agree on anything---from the way we dressed to the people we picked as friends. But what could we do? After all, we had to share many things in our small house.
Neither of us thought that we were wrong---we each blamed our inability to get along on the other and put each other down instead of trying to find the cause of the problem.
We grew up and I eventually left for college. At college I found that I didn't know how to get along with people. I found myself getting into arguments often and being hurt easily.
I began to see that the problem was that I hadn't developed a strong relationship with the members of the family, and so I didn't have a lot of experience in getting along with others.I realized that I had never gotten along well with my sister because I never really knew her.
I thought of the times I'd borrowed something from my sister without asking her, or had broken something without even admitting that I had broken it. I thought of the times that I refused to share my things with her, and of the things I had said behind her back to make myself look better.
Watching different kinds of people at college, I grew to accept each one with his or her strengths and weaknesses and to appreciate each person's uniqueness. I grew to see that by accepting people as they were, they were able to accept me. And true friendships began to develop.
That was something that my sister and I had never developed---a true friendship. Because it takes brotherly love to develop a friendship, and that love overlooks mistakes. I began to wonder: "Who is my sister?What is she like?What did she think of me all those years?"
I didn't have long to wonder. After I graduated from college, she came to live with me. At first we were wary, not sure what each other was like and with the memory of our childhood in our minds.
But this time we wanted to share and give to one another. And we also found out that our tastes were not that different after all. Our difficulty had been in our unwillingness to work with one another.
I couldn't help but think that if I had only tried harder to give to and understand my sister, and if I had really cared about what she was thinking, we would have grown up as good friends.
We never seemed to agree on anything---from the way we dressed to the people we picked as friends. But what could we do? After all, we had to share many things in our small house.
Neither of us thought that we were wrong---we each blamed our inability to get along on the other and put each other down instead of trying to find the cause of the problem.
We grew up and I eventually left for college. At college I found that I didn't know how to get along with people. I found myself getting into arguments often and being hurt easily.
I began to see that the problem was that I hadn't developed a strong relationship with the members of the family, and so I didn't have a lot of experience in getting along with others.I realized that I had never gotten along well with my sister because I never really knew her.
I thought of the times I'd borrowed something from my sister without asking her, or had broken something without even admitting that I had broken it. I thought of the times that I refused to share my things with her, and of the things I had said behind her back to make myself look better.
Watching different kinds of people at college, I grew to accept each one with his or her strengths and weaknesses and to appreciate each person's uniqueness. I grew to see that by accepting people as they were, they were able to accept me. And true friendships began to develop.
That was something that my sister and I had never developed---a true friendship. Because it takes brotherly love to develop a friendship, and that love overlooks mistakes. I began to wonder: "Who is my sister?What is she like?What did she think of me all those years?"
I didn't have long to wonder. After I graduated from college, she came to live with me. At first we were wary, not sure what each other was like and with the memory of our childhood in our minds.
But this time we wanted to share and give to one another. And we also found out that our tastes were not that different after all. Our difficulty had been in our unwillingness to work with one another.
I couldn't help but think that if I had only tried harder to give to and understand my sister, and if I had really cared about what she was thinking, we would have grown up as good friends.
Comprehension:
1. What was the two sisters' childhood problem?
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2. What was the elder sister's problem when she went to college?
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3. What did she discover to be the cause of her problem?
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4. What made the two sisters get along well with each other?
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5. What is basic so that one will be able to get along well with others?
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Exercise 2. - Highlights the main idea and underline the supporting details in the story.
Main Idea: _______________________________________________________________________
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Supporting Details: ________________________________________________________________
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