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    This routine uses headlines to help students summarize and capture the essence of a topic. Students write a headline that captures the most important aspect of the topic. They then discuss how their headline may have changed based on new information. The routine encourages students to think about the core ideas and come to tentative conclusions. It works well at the end of a class discussion, after students have explored a topic. Teachers can have students first think of a headline individually, then share with a partner, and finally discuss headlines as a class. Recording the headlines allows students to revisit and update their understanding over time.

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    This routine uses headlines to help students summarize and capture the essence of a topic. Students write a headline that captures the most important aspect of the topic. They then discuss how their headline may have changed based on new information. The routine encourages students to think about the core ideas and come to tentative conclusions. It works well at the end of a class discussion, after students have explored a topic. Teachers can have students first think of a headline individually, then share with a partner, and finally discuss headlines as a class. Recording the headlines allows students to revisit and update their understanding over time.

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    This routine uses headlines to help students summarize and capture the essence of a topic. Students write a headline that captures the most important aspect of the topic. They then discuss how their headline may have changed based on new information. The routine encourages students to think about the core ideas and come to tentative conclusions. It works well at the end of a class discussion, after students have explored a topic. Teachers can have students first think of a headline individually, then share with a partner, and finally discuss headlines as a class. Recording the headlines allows students to revisit and update their understanding over time.

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    This routine uses headlines to help students summarize and capture the essence of a topic. Students write a headline that captures the most important aspect of the topic. They then discuss how their headline may have changed based on new information. The routine encourages students to think about the core ideas and come to tentative conclusions. It works well at the end of a class discussion, after students have explored a topic. Teachers can have students first think of a headline individually, then share with a partner, and finally discuss headlines as a class. Recording the headlines allows students to revisit and update their understanding over time.

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    HEADLINES ROUTINE

    A routine for capturing essence


    This routine draws on the idea of newspaper-type headlines as a
    vehicle for summing up and capturing the essence of an event,
    idea, concept, topic, etc. The routine asks a core question:
    1. If you were to write a headline for this topic or issue right

    now that captured the most important aspect that should be


    remembered, what would that headline be?
    A second question involves probing how students ideas of what
    is most important and central to the topic being explored have
    changed over time:
    2. How has your headline changed based on todays

    discussion? How does it differ from what you would have


    said yesterday?
    Purpose: What kind of thinking does this routine encourage?
    This routine helps students capture the core or heart of the matter being studied or discussed. It
    also can involve them in summing things up and coming to some tentative conclusions.
    Application: When and where can it be used?
    This routine works especially well at the end of a class discussion or session in which students
    have explored a topic and gathered a fair amount of new information or opinions about it.
    Launch: What are some tips for starting and using this routine?
    The routine can be used quite effectively with think-pair-share. For example, at the end of a
    class the teachers can ask the class, Think about all that we have been talking about today in
    class. If you were to write a headline for this topic or issue right now that captured the most
    important aspect that should be remembered, what would that headline be? Next, the teacher
    tells students, Share your headline with your neighbor. The teacher might close the class by
    asking, Who heard a headline from someone else that they thought was particularly good at
    getting to the core of things?
    Student responses to the routine can be written down and recorded so that a class list of headlines
    is created. These could be reviewed and updated from time to time as the class learns more
    about the topic. The follow-up question, how has your headline changed or how does it differ
    from what you would have said? can be used to help students reflect on changes in their
    thinking.

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