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Teaching Summarization

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Examine the process of summarizing a piece of text using the book So You Want to Be a President? Kids review the definitions for main idea, topic sentences, superordinate terms, and supporting details. Next, they work in small groups to summarize sections of the book on to PowerPoint slides that are graded using a rubric. Finally, they complete a worksheet.

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supporting details, details, retelling, summarizing, textual references, topic sentences

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main topic, summarization, topic sentences, Informational Text, retell, supporting details, textual references, w.5.8, english language arts
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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SL.4.2

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