NEW OUTLINING RESOURCES
Struggling with teaching outlining? Remedia Publications, a school publisher and supplier, offers two guides to outlining, Beginning Outlining (intended for grades 2-4) and Outlining (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.
For logic and rhetoric students, we’ve discovered an outlining resource 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 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.”
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