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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.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Smmarize a text and distinguish between a summary and a critique, identifying nonessential information in a summary, and unsubstantiated opinions in a critique.
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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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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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.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Brian's Winter by Gary Paulson:using Art to Study Plot

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, learners examine the artwork in Lasceaux Cave in France via Internet and illustrate a chapter summary from Brian's Winter by Gary Paulson in "caveman style."
Article
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Summary

For Students 9th
Summarize the main events of "What 'White' Food Meant to a First Generation Kid" to establish our initial understanding.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Diagramming Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete guide from the Capital Community College to diagramming grammar sentences.
Website
Curated OER

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Literature: Summarize

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
An explanation of summarizing a selection along with a link to a model summarizing activity.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Summarize Information

For Students 8th Standards
Learn what a summary is and how to write an objective summary of an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.
PPT
Other

Prezi: Summarizing a Text

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Slideshow provides an explanation of summarizing and describes how to make a good one.
Handout
W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton & Company: Paraphrase, Summary, Description: Summary

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of a summary and how to write one effectively.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Super Summary [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and then complete a graphic organizer to help them write a summary. Materials are included.