Marzano-summarizing

I like the chapter on summarizing and taking notes. I was not sure how to help the students to learn to summarize and this gave me some useful ideas to use. One things I started to do at the end of the year when I had them summarize something was to tell them they had to pick the thing they thought was the most important part and explain it in one sentence of about 10 words. It seemed to work and they were more willing to be the spokesman for their group when reporting orally because they didn't have to say alot.