Standard 2: Reading and Writing Processes Students will use a variety of recursive reading and writing processes. 

2.2.R.4 ​Students will begin to summarize facts and details from an informational text.

Student Actions

Teacher Actions

• Students summarize key facts and details from an informational text that is read aloud or independently. 

• Teachers review the definitions of facts and details.

• Teachers model summarizing facts and details by thinking aloud after reading an informational text. 

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to summarize facts and details from an informational text in whole/small-group instruction, centers, or independently.

• Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for feedback when students summarize facts and details from an informational text. 

Recommendations

Key Terms & Related Objectives

When students struggle with summarizing facts and details from an informational text, teachers can…

• ask guiding questions. 

• assist students in determining the most important facts or details. 

• provide students with visual clues from the text by doing a picture walk.

When students struggle with staying on topic when summarizing facts and details from an informational text, teachers can…

• ask guiding questions.

• direct students back to the text.

• reviewing the key details from the text. 

• provide students with a graphic organizer. 

• Detail: a piece of information revealed by the author or speaker that supports the attitude or tone in a piece of prose or poetry. In informational text, details provide information to support the author’s main point.

• Informational: nonfiction text that contains facts and information.

• Summarize: to reduce large selections of text to the base essentials, including only the key ideas or main points worth noting.

• 2.1.S.2: Collaborative discussions

• 2.2.R.1: Identify topic/main idea

• 2.3.R.6: Locate facts