Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Summarize
Summarizing is a key skill needed in reading comprehension. This page describes how to summarize main ideas in a text. Click on Model button for a model with explanation and then click on Practice (Bottom Right)
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Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Summarizing
Lesson that introduces young scholars to the comprehension technique of summarizing. Students learn using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) method which involves organizing information and putting it in writing.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing a Movie
This lesson plan for writing a movie deals with both summarizing and rereading a film script. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Summarizing by Text Messaging Shakespeare
This is a lesson in how to summarize a play by William Shakespeare, in this case Romeo and Juliet, by writing a 140-character text message for each selection that students are assigned to read. The text messages are sent to a website,...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Essay Map
A fillable essay map in PDF format with boxes for an introduction, main ideas, supporting details, and a conclusion. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Using Reflective Writing in the Classroom
This article discusses the use of reflective writing in class including the uses such as summarize what was learned, writing about what they read, and keeping a reflective journal and the benefits of reflective writing.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Characters In
Contains plans for five lessons for the book "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo. Young scholars create lists of ten to summarize the features of characters. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Calling All Kid Presidents
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this lesson, students will watch a video of Kid President giving a speech and another of a student's winning speech to be vice-president of the student council. They will also read an excerpt from...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Ruby Bridges a Firsthand Account
For this lesson, we will read and understand the story "Through My Eyes" by Ruby Bridges. We will then compare and contrast this first-hand account with the secondhand account of "The Story of Ruby Bridges" by Robert Cole. A video...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Summary Writing
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...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Labor Day Address:barack Obama Speech [Pdf]
"Labor Day Address: Barack Obama Speech" is a one page, campaign speech by Barack Obama given on August 24, 2008, in Billings, Montana. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes...
Information Fluency
Imsa 21 Cif Portal: Searching for Non Html Formats?
Micro-Module provides instruction on searching documents in non-HTML formats. Find out about specilized search engines for alternate file formats. Also contains godd charts summarizing file extensions of alternate formats. Following the...