Description

This hands-on summarizing project is perfect for your small group lessons. Summarizing text is an important reading skill, and this project is just what you need for instruction and practice opportunities. Kid LOVE making books, and this one is a great for review later.

HOW TEACHERS CAN USE THIS SUMMARIZING PROJECT IN THE CLASSROOM

The book includes summarizing both fiction and nonfiction. and can be used with strategy groups, as a work station, in interactive notebooks, or as an at home project. Students learn techniques including SWBST, Hand Summaries, 5 W’s + H, and giving their summaries the MIDAS touch. You can use it as guided practice or as an assessment tool as well.

HOW IS THE SUMMARIZING PAPER BAG BOOK ORGANIZED?

It includes the following pages/components:

• Cover
• Qualities of a Great Summary
• MIDAS Touch
• Summarizing Techniques
• Connections to Main Idea and Plot
• Summary Flipbook
• Summarizing Pictures
• Guiding Questions
• Writing Paragraph to Match Summary
• Summary Sorting
• Summarizing Fiction and Nonfiction On My Own
• Summary of my Learning
• Grading Rubric

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OTHER PAPER BAG BOOKS YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS WOULD ENJOY:

• Exploring Theme
• Fact and Opinion? Can You Decide?
• Narrative Elements
• Synonyms and Antonyms
• Making Inferences
• Cause and Effect Relationships
• Drawing Conclusions
• Point of View
• Summarizing
• Main Idea
• Characterization
• Nonfiction Text Features

To get them all, purchase the bundle (includes 15 projects!)

Paper Bag Book Bundle for Reading Comprehension

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