Expanding Summary
This summary activity challenges students to summarize a text four times. Each time they summarize, they are asked to add information and details. This is a great activity to teach students how to elaborate and provide supporting details in their summaries.
Where is this in the Reading Process: Step 5
Explicitly Teach: Explain. Connect. Model. Practice.
Cycle of Independence: I do. We do. They do. You do.
Origin: Created and developed by LiteracyTA.
Expanding Summary Step-By-Step Process
Plan your lesson
Pathway
Teach the skill
Differentiate and support learning
Assess and track growth
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Literacy Standards In Action
We've mapped our literacy lessons and reading, speaking, and writing skills to state standards, Common Core, and NGSS. The standards are "the what" to teach. Our lessons are "the how" to meet the expectations defined by the standards. Click on the links below to view our quick reference table that maps standards to literacy lessons.
