Teaching summary

Year after year my students struggled with summaries, and then I started using this method for teaching summary writing. Eureka! I will never again teach this skill without this summary anchor chart.

Our state test places a large emphasis on the difference between the structure of a summary for fiction and nonfiction texts. As a result, I developed this lesson to help my fifth grade students with this challenging concept. I used this anchor chart to introduce the basic differences between the two types of summaries. Students glued a smaller copy of the anchor chart into their reader's notebooks for future reference. We discussed that all summaries include the main idea of the text, the…

Need to know how to help students write summaries? These lesson ideas and summarizing ideas and tips for the upper elementary classroom will help you teach summarizing and help your students write summaries as they read.

Guided Writing for Summaries (Fiction) Anchor Chart

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Students use the five provided cues to extract and summarize the most critical elements (or essence) of a story without retelling it at length (or with unnecessary details).

Summary Anchor Chart

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