This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient strategy for the conducting of literature circles. Downloadable tent cards are provided for the following literature circle member roles: recorder, facilitator, summarizer, and...

This activity asks students to differentiate between main ideas and supporting details.

In this instructional resource, students will learn more about summarizing texts. Worksheets and PowerPoint lessons are provided to reinforce understanding about ways to summarize nonfiction texts and to identify main ideas. This module...

Provides guidance on the ways to quote, paraphrase, and summarize information. Gives various reasons for paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting various sources.

This lesson focuses on how to integrate source material using paraphrase and summary and the differences between the two. It also provides a practice exercise.

This multi-day jigsaw activity engages students in summary writing. Students will work in small groups after direct instruction and write short summary paragraphs. Students will refer to the 'Five Rules For Writing a Summary' chart for...

In this lesson, The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown is used as a mentor text. Students will create an illustrated paragraph about a particular math topic. Students will use the mentor text and attempt to adapt the author's style to...

Young children ages three to six are capable of making thoughtful decisions about their behavior and keen observations about their environment. We can promote the development of thinking and reasoning in young children in the early years...

In this lesson, students will engage in this post-reading strategy for a nonfiction or a fiction piece. Each student will take notes on a four-square square graphic organizer about something they already knew, something they found...

Terms related to main idea are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: central idea, main idea, conclusion, infer, inferences, interesting detail, subject, summarizing, and supporting detail....

Summarizes the events that took place to develop the Compromise of 1850.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about geological processes that took place during the Precambrian Era. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about groundwater pollution and depletion. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about the scientific method and hypotheses.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about how intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks form. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about the evolution of agriculture and how it has impacted human population growth. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about overpopulation and overconsumption by humans and the impacts these have. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about streams and rivers. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

Practice paraphrasing sentences and summarizing short paragraphs.

Students understand statistical concepts like center of data and the amount of data variation from the center. They calculate the measures of the center of a distribution and the measures of spread for the data collected as a list....

To understand a text, you must understand the central idea of the story. Learn how to recognize the central idea and supporting details with this article. Click the links at bottom right.

For a concise summary of human blood types, this is a great resource. Discussion includes the topics of genotype, phenotype and agglutinins. There is also a nice pictorial table that summarizes the three blood types.

Tips on how to check understanding of text for adult learnings.

Summarizes what is known about learning from research on the brain and suggests related strategies to use in the classroom. Also discusses the main techniques and strategies that are in wide use today including, for example,...