MET # 2: Summarizing Academic Text and Thesis Statement Lesson #1: Nature of Academic Text

Prerequisite Content-knowledge: Academic Text and Text Structure

Prerequisite Skill: Techniques in Summarizing Academic Text
Prerequisites Assessment:

Pre-lesson Remediation Activity:

1. For Students with Insufficient Level on Prerequisite Content-knowledge and/or Skill(s): Making
students define what academic text is with regards to characteristics and examples.
2. For Students with Fairly Sufficient Level on Prerequisite Content-knowledge and/or Skill(s): Recitation
Introduction:

1. You will orient your students of the following:

Time frame: 2 days
Means of communication: face to face class

2. Present to the students the Knowledge (RUA) they are expected to gain from learning the
topic/lesson: The students will be able to…

Remembering: Remember the steps in summarizing

Understanding: formulate thesis statement of an academic text.
Applying: Make a summary of a given academic text based on the techniques learned.

3. Inform the students with the context where they can apply their learning:

The learners will learn the techniques in summarizing academic and how to locate thesis statement in a given text.

After discussing the techniques in summarizing, learners will be asked to make a summary applying the techniques
acquired.

4. Provide the overview of the lesson by summarizing the lesson in a nutshell.

The lesson is about summarizing and thesis statement. The students will be taught of the techniques to be used
when summarizing academic text. This will provide them the knowledge on getting the most important details on a
selection and locating the thesis statement.
Student’s Experiential Learning: (Note: Use the Flexible Learning Activity Identified for the topic/lesson relative
to the General Enabling Teaching Strategy)

Introduce the lesson by chunks (essential knowledge). Each chunk ends with a formative question that the students
should answer. If the students fail to answer the formative question satisfactorily, an immediate intervention should
be made readily available for students to access. This clarifies any misconceptions and would establish a solid
foundation of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes he/she should attain.

Chunk 1: Summarizing
Formative question: How do you summarize a text?

Chunk 2: Thesis Statement

Formative question: What is a thesis statement? Where can we locate a thesis statement? How do we formulate
thesis?
Synthesis

Provide the lesson’s synthesis by answering the formative questions in all of the lesson chunks.

Summarizing is creating a condensed version of a selection that covers a full-length text containing the main idea
and the most important ideas and points of the academic text.

Thesis Statement is the road map of the text. It is the central idea that gives the reader what is expected of the text.
It can be written in a sentence or two.

RUA of a Student’s Learning: This is the part where the students express their learning in their own unique ways.
They will manifest learning of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they achieve in this lesson through their
individual learning style (visual, auditory, reading and writing, and kinesthetic).

The learners can now uniquely…

Remembering: Remember the steps in summarizing

Understanding: Summarized an academic text applying the techniques in summarizing
Applying: Formulate a thesis statement
Post-lesson Remediation Activity:

Based on your individual assessment of the student’s RUA of Learning, you will design remediation activity in the
form of inputs (reading texts, prompts, cloze completion, question and answer, etc.) that will address the identified
difficulties in the assessment.

 Look for an academic text. Locate the thesis statement and make a summary.