How to summarize a story

Summarizing is one of the hardest strategies to teach and for students to learn. Many students will retell the text ... almost word for word when asked to give a summary. In order for students to learn the difference between a retelling and a summary, teachers must model, model, model summarizing often. According to Dr. Jan Richardson, when we ask our students to summarize they ... write too much or not enough do not capture the most important ideas copy word for word from the text do not…

Hey friends! My mind is BLOWN with the fact that today, I took down my January calendar and put up FEBRUARY! I think my nostrils are beginning to smell saltwater 😉 Back to reality! This past week reviewed summary in fiction stories. I don’t know about you, but my kids pretty much thought summary was sequencing every event in the story and then just picking an answer choice based on luck. I am a list person that loves to color code, so why couldn’t I bring that into my classroom? First, we…

We are always asking students to summarize what they read. Summarizing takes practice- & a lot of it. It also involves consciously using other reading skills like identifying the main idea, inferring, determining importance and identifying story elements. There’s so much going on in this process of summarizing that seems so simple to us as adults. I have looked at the method of “somebody wanted,

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