Struggling with teaching outlining? Remedia Publications, a school publisher and supplier, offers two guides to outlining, Outlining 1 (intended for grades 2-4) and Outlining 2 (for grades 5-8). We don't think you ought to bother with outlining for grammar stage children (it's an analytical skill), but these resources can also be used as a ground-up skill builder for older children. Outlining can be ordered directly from Remedia Publications at their website, www.rempub.com, or from their catalog. Contact them at Remedia Publications, Inc., 10135 East Via Linda, Suite D-124, Scottsdale, AZ 85258; phone 800-826-4740, fax 877-661-9901.
For logic and rhetoric students, we've discovered a new outlining resources
that also teaches note-taking skills: Teaching
Outlining in History: A Game Approach, for grades 7-12. This
is a good resource, although it's designed to use in a classroom -- one
set of students is supposed to present a prepared lecture while the other
teams take notes, compare their notes, prepare an outline of the material,
and check them against a "master" outline that's provided. You could
adapt it for home use, though, by giving the lecture yourself and allowing
the student to prepare an outline from his notes and then check it against
the master; it would also be a wonderful project for a co-op class.
You can buy Teaching
Outlining in U.S. History or Teaching
Outlining in World History, for $21.50 each, from Social Studies
School Service at (800) 421-4246, 10200 Jefferson Boulevard, Room 17, P.O.
Box 802, Culver City, CA 90232- 0802, or from the Social Studies School
Service website at www.socialstudies.com.
Each package gives you sets of eight prepared lectures, sixteen outline
forms, and sixteen correct outlines, as well as "exercises which help students
to paraphrase, summarize, and organize data."
