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  1. How to teach summarizing. Summarizing can be tricky, even for adults. The leap from retelling — which asks readers to recall the events in a story in logical order — to determining what is important or essential in a story and condensing the information into a summary, is a big one.

  2. Sep 30, 2016 · A look at why summarizing skills are important, how to work on them, and a free printable story elements graphic organizer to teach kids how to summarize.

    • Change Your Prompting. We often use the prompt, “Summarize what you’ve read” when asking students to summarize. If your students aren’t responding well to this prompt, mix it up a bit with how you ask the question.
    • Summarizing Roller Coaster. Make summarizing visual with this fun graphic organizer. It’s simply a Google Jamboard with a line in the middle that students add sticky notes to.
    • Partner Reading Routine. If your students could use fluency and summarizing practice, this is a great 3-5 minute routine to add into the beginning of class several days per week.
    • Model Summarizing in Interactive Read Aloud. If you have the opportunity to do whole class read alouds with novels, there is no better way to help students strengthen their summarizing skills than to model it and have students co-construct chapter summaries with you.
    • Connecting Pages. Great for any Reading Levels. Strategy Steps. Read a page or section. Think about what that page or section is mostly about. Read the next section.
    • What is Most Important. Great for Reading Levels E-K. Strategy Steps. Remind your child that a summary is a short telling of what they just read. When you get ready to summarize, think about what parts of the story you will tell.
    • Highlight Deep Ideas. Great for Reading Levels L and up. Strategy Steps. Think about what happened in each part of the story. Ask yourself, “What was this story really about?”
    • Character’s Wants. Great for Reading Levels L and up. Strategy Steps. After reading, think about what the main character really wants. Keeping the character’s wants in mind, think about the one really important event that happened in each chapter.
  3. Jul 19, 2024 · Discover 13 tips to help you teach students how to summarize text by giving them repeated practice with this important literacy skill. Help students discover the difference in theme vs main idea and how to clearly define other related topics and literacy skills for them throughout your lessons.

  4. As students learn to summarize paragraphs successfully, you can raise the stakes and teach them how to apply this skill to more extensive texts. Some studies suggest teaching kids to ask themselves questions to guide themselves through this process (Malone & Mastropieri, 1992).

  5. How to summarise a text. Before you can begin to analyse the language or techniques being used by a writer, the effects these create and the methods used, it is important to be able to find...

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