Help learners find the most important information in a text with a lesson on summarizing. As kids read through a passage about Johannes Gutenberg, they summarize small excerpts, put events in sequential order, and respond to two longer questions that require them to refer to the text.

Concepts

summarizing, informational texts, context clues, sequence of events

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the activity with your own informational text, or with a short story or parts of a novel
• Include the resource in a reading assessment for incoming learners or at the end of a grading term
• Cut out the events in the text and have kids physically put them in order based on what they have read and summarized

Pros

• Prompts learners to refer to the text for all activities, including their short answer questions, which would be good practice for a research essay or project
• Addresses a variety of reading skills that are important for both informational text and literature

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.5.2 RI.6.2