Swbst anchor chart

Oh summary. How I have such a love-hate relationship with you. Summarizing stories is something students start at a young age, and yet it is still so hard for students even in late elementary. I often find that they struggle to determine the important details from the minor details and write summaries filled with and then, and then, and then, and then, and then.....I end up feeling like Ashton Kutcher from "Dude, Where's My Car." So, why do we teach summarizing? The ability to summarize…

Summarizing Strategy - Someone wanted but then so

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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…

Free printable SWBST anchor chart, worksheet, and bookmark for practicing the SWBST summarizing strategy.

The simplest way to reuse anchor charts... Laminate and switch out sticky notes. This is what we did with this Summarizing Anchor Chart for teaching Somebody, Wanted, But, So summarizing strategy. From the blog post- Anchoring the Standards: Teaching & Documenting the Common Core Standards with Anchor Charts Part 1