This 31-page document focuses on teaching summarizing strategies for use with fiction and nonfiction texts. This series of lesson plans starts with fiction summarizing strategies such as "Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then" and "Story Arch." Then it moves on to nonfiction strategies with lesson plans on answering who, what, when, where, why, and how questions in order to create a summary. Most strategies include graphic organizers in English and Spanish.

Concepts

summarizing

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Additional Tags

summarize, writing summaries, austin independent school district: summary of fiction and nonfiction text, summary

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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Common Core

W.3.3.a RL.3.7 RL.5.5 RL.3.3 RI.8.6 SL.5.3 RI.4.3 RI.3.3