Summarizing informational text has several uses for students. It teaches them to determine the most important ideas in a text, ignore unimportant information, and connect the main idea and key details of a text in a logical way. Summarizing also helps improve memory and comprehension of a text … [Read more...]
Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction: Coding the Text
The lesson I am sharing with you all today is one small lesson in a GIANT Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction unit. You can click HERE to read about our fiction summaries. First and foremost, my students struggle with summarizing nonfiction. The problem is that nonfiction passages are usually … [Read more...]
Summarizing Fiction Texts Simplified!
Seems simple, RIGHT? Read a chapter, write a summary... Our students see this a lot, whether it be on our reading assessments, in our own classroom work, or on our state assessments. Bottom line, we want our kids to be proficient (and feel confident) in taking out the important elements from a … [Read more...]
