Curated OER
Preventing Household Hazards
Learners identify how household materials can be hazardous to themselves and family members.  Precautions for preventing and/or minimizing various hazards are discussed as a class.  Working in pairs, students create a directory of...
Curated OER
Who Is Responsible For Repairs?
Learners discuss household problems that may be eligible for repair by their landlord.  As a class, students discuss the portions of their lease that require their landlord to repair damages and which damages they may be responsible for...
Curated OER
THE JUDICIAL BRANCH
Students create a series of drawings to show the process of how the Supreme Court does its work.  The drawings may be in strip cartoon form or a series of separate illustrations.
Curated OER
Romanticism, Realism and Transcendentalism
Correct two sentences on overhead and complete one analogy,Define word meanings, synonyms, antonyms, variant forms and word parts for five words,interpret ?The Devil and Tom Walker?
-respond to teacher-directed questions
-discuss...
Curated OER
Eisenhower 1/26
Eighth graders identify and explain what Bernoulli's Principle is and draw diagrams to incorporate Pascal.  They also perform simple calculations of density, buoyancy, and fluid pressure.  Finally, 8th graders describe fluid pressure in...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Determining Importance & Summarizing Informational Text
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to summarize main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas within expository text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 6 Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text and understand that a summary does not include opinions.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading Informational Texts Using the 3 2 1 Strategy
Learners can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 7 Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to evaluate a summary of the original text for accuracy of the main ideas, supporting details, and overall meaning.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Summarize
Learn how to summarize a text based on the main idea and supporting details you found.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determine Central Ideas and Supporting Details
Read a short informational text and determine the main idea and supporting details. Click to check your answers then click on Practice.
Other
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Summarize
A short explanation of how summarize an informational text. Click on the Model link to see an example summary with explanation.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Summarizing a Source
Information that can be read or listened to that discusses two methods of how to write effective summaries as well as how to avoid plagiarism when summarizing informational texts. Finally, examples of literary summaries are provided....
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Classify and Summarize Information [Pdf]
This learning module contains a link to graphic organizers that will help students categorize content and comprehend short and extended texts. The graphic organizers are designed to be applied to reading nonfiction passages in science...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Summarize
Learn how to summarize a section of a text with this site.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Summarizing Texts
Fifth graders will review what a summary is and complete a worksheet for practice. They will then write their own informational text and a peer will summarize.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Get the Gist: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content Area
A five-part standards-based lesson in which students learn to write a 20 word summary of an informational text by focusing on answering the questions who, what, when, where, why, and how. This strategy can be applied to any content area,...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determine Central Idea and Supporting Details
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.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Comprehensive Questions: Nonfiction [Pdf]
Questions are provided to help students determine the main idea, topic, and fact versus opinion of a nonfiction piece. Students are prompted to write a summary of an informational text.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Comprehensive Assessment: Nonfiction [Pdf]
Questions are provided to help students determine the main idea, topic, purpose, and opinion of a piece of nonfiction. Students are prompted to write a summary of the informational text.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Summarizing
Series of interactive activities for practicing skills in summarizing information, in identifying main points and ideas, and in sorting lists into meaningful categories.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Summarize Information
Learn what a summary is and how to write an objective summary of an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Summarizing
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.