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Polk Bros Foundation
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3rd - 8th
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English Language Arts
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2010
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Science Learning Summary Guide

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Apply reading standards to your science curriculum by asking pupils to complete this guide. Individuals note down important vocabulary as well as two ideas they learned and two supporting facts for each idea. They then take this information and use it to build a summary about the topic.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

main ideas, central ideas, supporting details, details, summaries, summarizing

Additional Tags

summary, summarize, key vocabulary, supporting facts, supporting details, main idea, science

Pros

  • Provides a place for pupils to collect their knowledge and focus on vocabulary and important details

Cons

  • This page will really only help your learners collect information for a summary; there is no instruction on how to write a summary

Common Core

RI.3.2 RI.4.2 RI.5.2 RI.6.2 RI.7.1 RI.8.2

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