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Let's Sum It Up

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students summarize a selected piece of nonfiction text as a group. After reviewing the instructors preferred method for summarizing information by identifying the main idea and supporting details, groups write a summary paragraph of a...
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Summing It All Up

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore reading comprehension and how to summarize an article using a web. They explore the six steps of summarization. Students read "The World's Smallest Bird". They review how to read a text silently and then they discuss the...
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Online Newspaper Search

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the Internet to research an article. When they find an article they like, it be printed and they highlight the important information and present to the class.
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Let's Sum It Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the benefits of summarizing and create their own summaries in this lesson. Students read the "Siberian Survivor" article from National Geographic Kids Online. Students then discuss the important facts mentioned in the...
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Holidays: Stress on the Body

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read an article on stress and holiday weight gain. In this biology lesson, students research about the body's response to excess sugar in the diet. They create a pamphlet, billboard, newscast or journal article containing...
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Ready, Set, Sum

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders summarize a piece of nonfiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read in order to summarize, 3rd graders independently read a nonfiction article. They write a summary paragraph using the three step process outlined...
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It's Time to Sum It Up!!!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice the reading strategy of summarization skills by picking out main events or ideas while reading a chapter in a book. They interact with the article, "SuperCroc," from National Geographic for Kids magazine to summarize...
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Wright Brothers Centennial: Impact of Technological Advance

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the impact of powered flight on the North Carolina coast. After reading news articles, they explain how the first flight affected community pride. They develop a hypothesis about the long-term economic impacts to...
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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students read and comprehend the views presented in the article they are given concerning the banning of HUCKLEBERRY FINN and demonstrate their understanding by creating a slogan based on the view of the author in the article.
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Give Me the Facts!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars study how to summarize a reading passage to improve their comprehension. They read a non-fiction passage and use five steps to summarize it while working in groups of three. Next, as class, they decide which group provided...
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Summing It All Up

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students summarize a selected piece of text nonfiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a nonfiction article. They write a summary paragraph using a concept map and the process outlined by the...
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Summing Up "Penguins on Parade"

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review the meaning of comprehension as it refers to what they have read and how they remember information. They discover the meaning of summarization including the steps they should follow. They then predict what an article...
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That Sums It All Up!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students review the concept of silent reading. They listen to a story and create a story map of what they hear. Then, they read their own story and map it the same way. This time, they use this story map to write a summary of what they...
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Simon Says Summarize

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students comprehend text for the purpose of understanding what is being read. In this instructional activity they practice the skill of summarization with the goal of improving reading comprehension while reading the article "Godzilla".
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Nonfiction Assignment Sheet

For Students 8th - 10th
For this nonfiction genre worksheet, students read a nonfiction story and then complete a summary, vocabulary, interpretation, criticism, and a personal response.
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Swoosh-Remember That

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use a six step process to write a summary of a provided paragraph. The steps include: delete unimportant information, delete repeated information, substitute easy terms for a list of items, add a series of events with an...
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Calibrated Peer Review: Introduction-Why Study Geology?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students read an article written by Sarah Andrews, a geologist who has written mystery novels featuring a geologist who solves crimes. After reading the article, students write an essay based on a Writing Prompt and begin peer review...
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Gross Domestic Product in the Real World

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers gain knowledge of Gross Domestic Products and how they are used as an economic indicator. They bring articles that mention GDP and decide how it is used in articles. Students present orally their findings to the class.
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Summarizing the Good Stuff

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students summarize a selected piece of text nonfiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a nonfiction article. Working in groups, they write a summary paragraph using the five step process outlined by...
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Summing It All Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read articles and summarize the main points in this instructional activity. Students read a provided article from National Geographic Kids and create a web detailing the main points. They then use a six step process to write a...
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News Watch

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine newspaper articles that deal with human rights issues, prejudice, ethnic wars, antisemitism, racism, and inequality.
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Summing It Up Can Be Fun!!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils observe and demonstrate the process of summarizing text. As a class, they silently read an article about panda bears from "Ranger Rick" magazine and answer comprehension questions. They answer the five "W" questions, and write a...
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Media Scrapbook

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils analyze the fundamental issues relating to Canadian parliamentary democracy through the exploration of media and public opinion. A scrapbook is created containing summaries of the work performed.
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To Tell You in a Nutshell

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization. Through guided practice, they follow six steps in finding and highlighting important information from an article, while deleting information that is not...

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