These teacher resources focuses on why it is important to teach elementary students to determine the importance and to summarize informational text. It leads an activity to help teachers experience when and how we use these strategies.

Lesson that introduces learners to the comprehension technique of summarizing. Students learn using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) method which involves organizing information and putting it in writing.

In this lesson, students will examine the ways in which a magazine cover's headlines and graphics express the main ideas of its articles. They will then use an interactive tool to create covers that summarize chapters of informational...

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)

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 learners are assigned to read. The text messages are sent to a website,...

Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for a more concise understanding. Upon reading a passage, summarizing helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate...

An explanation of summarizing a selection along with a link to a model summarizing activity.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students about other measures of center such as the mid-range, trimmed means and weighted mean. It also introduces the concept of percentiles,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, young scholars 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...

Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular lesson plan students learn how to summarize properly.

This instructional activity focuses on finding evidence to support your thesis, how to incorporate your findings into your own work, and how to effectively quote, paraphrase, and summarize your information. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.9,...

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]

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...

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.

Learn the seven steps to writing a summary of an informational text. Includes a summary template and completed examples.

Summarizes a textbook chapter on abnormal psychology, providing an overview of different approaches to psychological disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) used in diagnosis, and characteristics of...

Article summarizing the naming of this element.

Article summarizing the development and use of numerous concentration camps by the Nazis in the early years of World War II. The camps were used to provide forced labor, retain political prisoners, and any populations the Nazis wanted to...

Summarizes the background behind this order that moved people of Japanese ancestry to relocation centers in 1942. Provides a link to an image of the original document and a copy of the text.

Our Africa is a project that allows the children of Africa to film their lives and their country the way they see them. This section summarizes the geography and wildlife and includes videos about forestry, the Nile, Lake Naivasha, and...

The parts of the digestive system and how they function are explained. An interactive diagram shows the location of each part of the system, and summarizes what each does. Disorders of the digestive system are also described.

Students learn the overall function of the human lungs, and then summarize the blood flow pattern associated with the lungs.

In this lesson, daily weather observations are recorded and then summarized at the end of the week.

Article summarizes the history of "just war" theory in Aquinas and his successors; then takes up two subcategories within the theory: the rules that govern the justice of war, and the rules that govern fair conduct in war. Clearly...