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SQUEEZE
Purpose: This is a pre-reading activity as well as a writing activity that will introduce the summary process.

Objective: Students will work in small cooperative groups to read a passage. They will first write a summary of what they have read, then shorten the summary into one sentence.

Procedures: (Note: Teacher must model this activity beforehand) 1. Teacher will define roles of verifier, squeezer, recorder, and summarizer. Then ask for volunteers from the class. The teacher may model the role of summarizer the first few times this lesson is done.

2. The roles are defined as follows:
a. Summarizer: will summarize the passage.
b. Verifier: will verify that the summary is correct and checks out with text.
c. Squeezer: compresses information into one statement (sentence).
d. Recorder: records the squeeze (may also record the summary).
e. Reporter: reports to the rest of the class what the recorder has written down for the group's response.

3. Students read the passage and fulfill their roles. (roles may be doubled up if your groups have more than 4 members)

4. Teacher asks the student reporters to give their groups' responses to the "squeeze" portion of the lesson.
5. The teacher writes the squeezes down on a chart for everyone to see.

6. Roles can rotate for the next passage.

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