• Students identify important events in a story.

• Students use important events in their summary.

• Students create a summary with important events told in sequential order.

• Teachers review and explain the term summary.

• Teachers demonstrate locating important events in a story.

• Teachers model summarizing fictional texts with important events told in sequential order.

• Teachers provide time and opportunities for students to summarize fictional texts by putting important events in sequential order. 

• Teachers provide opportunities for feedback on student-created summaries.

When students struggle to create a summary teachers can...

• utilize tools such as anchor charts and graphic organizers to assist students.

• prompt students to retell the important events in the story, emphasizing the need for events from all parts of a story (i.e., beginning, middle, and end).

• use examples and non-examples of summarizing during class discussion.

When students struggle to identify important events of a story, teachers can…

• utilize a variety of strategies to assist students in locating important events such as modeled writing, sorting activities, and summarize vs retell activities.

• reread the story to the student and provide additional prompting to increase student comprehension.

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

• 4.1.S.2: Collaborative discussions

• 4.3.R.3: Literary elements