One skill essential to reading comprehension, is learning how to summarize a text. After reading a biography of Abraham Lincoln, readers demonstrate this ability by crafting a brief summary of Lincoln's life.

Concepts

abraham lincoln, biographies, summarizing

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• The exercise may be used to model how to summarize, or as an assessment of this skill

Classroom Considerations

• The exercise is designed to address Common Core standards
• The exercise assumes readers have experience writing summaries

Pros

• The passage contains key information about Lincoln's life and accomplishments

Cons

• To successfully complete the assignment, readers must have experience recognizing key details and crafting generalizations

Common Core

RI.6.2 RI.7.2 RI.8.2