Provide scholars with an opportunity to practice summarizing text with a two-page learning exercise. Learners read poems, share stories with their peers, and summarize their new-found-knowledge. 

Concepts

summaries, responding to reading, poetry, robert louis stevenson, paraphrasing, main ideas, reading, reading poetry

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Gather a collection of poems that learners can read and summarize when time permits 
• Revisit the second activity frequently; conduct the practice at the start of every Monday or when class members change seats 
• Give pupils the answer sheet to check their completed work 

Classroom Considerations

• The worksheet assumes learners know how to summarize text
• Requires a class set of copies 

Pros

• Includes an answer sheet
• Underlined section titles stand out from the rest of the text 
• The first page offers helpful information to assist pupils locate correct information needed for a summary

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.2