Helping students GRASP the knack of writing summaries
David A. Hayes · The Journal of Reading · 1989
it is encoded into a summary. The written product expected is a statement of information gleaned from reading, cast in the student's own words. All too often, however, a student hands in a verbatim handwritten copy of a resource that has been consulted. This is likely a result of the student's not knowing how to carry out the assignment and of the teacher's not having taught students how to summarize their reading. Described here is a classroom procedure for teaching students how to compose summaries of their reading. It is an adaptation and extension of Manzo's (1975) Guided Reading Procedure (GRP), in which the teacher leads students to extract information from