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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Using Sources: Applying Paraphrase, Summary, and Quotation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on when to use paraphrase, summary, and quotation to integrate source material into your paper.
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Unit Plan
Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Writing Summaries

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This guide is about the many facets and considerations involved when writing a summary. Also provides the reader options for which type of summary they are interested in researching, and provides a detailed analysis of each. Th e links...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: What Makes a Hero?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this unit, students will discuss what qualities make a hero: kid heroes, adult heroes, local heroes, and historical figure heroes. They will extend this to what qualities make historical figures heroes for them; they will research a...
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Sam Houston State University

Texas Center for Academic Excellence: Summarizing Pre Test

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Check students' prior knowledge and understanding of how to summarize passages and identify main ideas.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Test

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Terms associated with main idea are included on this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: central idea, main idea, details, supporting details, summarizing, interesting detail, conclusion, topic, subject, and...
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Match

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Terms related to main idea are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: central idea, main idea, conclusion, infer, inferences, interesting detail, subject, summarizing, and supporting detail....
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Test

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Reading comprehension terms (nonfiction) are included on this test. This test assesses the following words: topic, main idea, supporting details, summarizing, conclusion, point of view, author's perspective, author's purpose, details,...
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Match

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Reading comprehension terms (nonfiction) are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: main idea, summarizing, point of view, summarizing, topic, support, conclusion, details, author's purpose,...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Reading strategy terms (nonfiction) are included in this review exercise. Flashcards are provided for the following words: topic, main idea, supporting details, summarizing, conclusion, point of view, author's perspective, author's...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze Nonfiction: Central Idea [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This graphic organizer will help students analyze nonfiction pieces. Students will use the graphic organizer to guide them as they identify the central idea and supporting details.
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Lesson Plan
A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Summary, Note Taking, Main Idea & Details

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A to Z Teacher Stuff offers a lesson, submitted by a teacher, using different sized post-it notes to discuss summarizing, note taking, main idea, and details. RI.11-12.2 Central IdeaS/Anal/Summ
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, learners will examine the ways in which a magazine cover's headlines and graphics express the main ideas of its articles. They will then use an interactive tool to create covers that summarize chapters of informational...
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Lesson Plan
Success Link

Success Link: Characters, Setting, Plot, Conclusion, and Summarizing a Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan offers a step-by-step procedure for teaching students how to identify story elements and to summarize a story. It explains how to use a "Who Am I" activity, as well as a linkage activity in identifying characters and...
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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Summary Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students demonstrate an understanding of summary writing by reading step-by-step instructions and then summarizing short paragraphs. Examples of summaries that are poorly written, as well as those that are...
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Lesson Plan
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans on Summary Writing Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on how to help teachers write lesson plans that will aid students in learning to write clear, concise summaries of movies and literary works.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan for Writing a Movie Summary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan focuses on teaching high school young scholars to write a movie summary that provides a plot summary without sharing too much of the storyline but includes the following: brevity, conflict, theme, tone, and persuades...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Reading and Understanding

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips on how to check understanding of text for adult learnings.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Leo Lionni's a Color of His Own

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will summarize a Leo Lionni story through drawing and writing. Students will also mix the three primary colors to make secondary colors.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students engage in a discussion of "Manifest Destiny" using a timeline of events from 1830 - 1860, and a biographical sketch of a real person who lived during that time period. During the discussion, students will use the biography to...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Novel Study Independent Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will choose a novel from a teacher-created reading list. After reading their choice novel, students will prepare a 1-1/2 to 2 minute multimedia presentation to "sell" other students on the novel. In addition, students will...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Analyzing Characters in 12 Angry Men

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Re-telling a story from the points of view of its various characters is a powerful way to review the events of a story, show how authors use characterization to reveal characters' personalities, and encourage learners to view stories...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Aunt Chip and the Triple Creek Dam Affair

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this instructional activity, students will read and summarize the book by pages. After publishing, students will use their slides as sequencing exercises. This lesson plan can be adapted for any grade level or book.