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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to summarize main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas within expository text.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Summarizing a Source

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on summarizing a research source; it lists the uses for summary, and explains what a summary is and is not. It explains how to summarize a text and incorporate it into a paper.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text and understand that a summary does not include opinions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will focus on summary and critique separately so that you can distinguish between the two. You will learn how to summarize a text and how to distinguish between essential and nonessential information when summarizing. You...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn how to write an effective summary using reading strategies to help ensure that the summary contains enough information without including unnecessary details or personal opinions. You will also learn...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to evaluate a summary of the original text for accuracy of the main ideas, supporting details, and overall meaning.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Source Material Accurately

For Students 10th - 12th
You will learn how to summarize, paraphrase, and quote material from your sources.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Summarizing

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, websites, and text about summarizing a text.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Summarizing Texts

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will review what a summary is and complete a worksheet for practice. They will then write their own informational text and a peer will summarize.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to summarize a text in contrast to writing a critique that takes a position.
Article
TES Global

Tes: Romeo and Juliet: Schools' Synopsis by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a synopsis of the Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Information and Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Information and Ideas category of the SAT Reading Test includes questions that focus on what the passage says (directly or indirectly). To interpret the author's message, you'll need to consider both what's stated and what's implied...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Verbs and Quotes

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
A ten-part learning module. The first six lessons include links to videos, a worksheet, a word list, notes, and a learning game on verbs. The last four lessons include links to videos and information on paraphrasing, citing, summarizing...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Summarization Strategy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Improve understanding of expository materials by summarizing the main ideas. The summarization strategy helps students recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are five rules for writing summaries.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Summarize

For Students 9th Standards
Read paragraphs one and two from the prologue of Invisible Man together to establish our understanding, and then summarize the text.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Summary of Fiction and Nonfiction Text [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This 31-page document focuses on teaching summarizing strategies for use with fiction and nonfiction texts. This series of lesson plans starts with fiction summarizing strategies such as "Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then" and "Story Arch."...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Early Chicago Environment and People [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
"Early Chicago Environment and People" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the early Native Americans who settled in what is now Chicago. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Plants and Places [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Plants and Places" is a one page, nonfiction passage about how plants fit the types of environment they live in such as cactus like hot, dry weather and live in Arizona. The state flowers fit the climate of the states. It is followed by...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Plants and Food [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
"Plants and Food" is a one page, nonfiction passage about plant foods and the importance of knowing what plants are safe to eat and how to prevent food from spoiling. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence...
Article
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Pbl, Common Core and Next Gen Standards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This two-page article summarizes the alignment of PBL with Common Core standards for ELA and math, plus the Next Generation Science Standards. It is an excerpt from the BIE book, PBL for 21st Century...
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Other

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: u.s. Religion Landscape Survey

For Students 9th - 10th
Website summarizing the results of a survey on religion in the U.S. Contains maps and charts of information for each specific religion as well as bar graphs comparing the deomographics of the different religious groups. Two full reports...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Cytokinesis

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A description of the stages of eukaryotic cell division, a summarization of mitosis and the metaphase plate, an explanation of the function of the centrioles and the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Dna Structure and Replication

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Module describes how DNA's structure and function was discovered while summarizing the process of DNA replication. This activity also explains Chargaff's rules and...

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