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This is an engaging summarizing activity where your students read an original short story. After they have finished reading, students identify the characters, setting, beginning/problem, middle/events, end/resolution, and theme on the individual pieces of the sundae. Finally, students use their pieces to write a complete summary! Summarizing Fiction, Summarizing Activities, Summary Activities, 5th Grade Ela, Summary Writing, Elementary Teaching, 5th Grade Reading, 4th Grade Reading, Story Structure

This is an engaging summarizing activity where your students read an original short story. After they have finished reading, students identify the characters, setting, beginning/problem, middle/events, end/resolution, and theme on the individual pieces of the sundae. Finally, students use their pieces to write a complete summary!

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Summarizing text is such an important skill. Students learn how to summarize text as early as kindergarten by being asked to retell or recount familiar parts of a story, including key details. By fifth grade, students are not only asked to summarize text, but they also need to identify the theme of the story as

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FREE! Graphic Organizers: Summarizing Fiction Texts Simplified! - Help your upper elementary students better learn how to summarize text with the great ideas and activities at this blog post. You get a FREE printable graphic organize for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students. Plus check out the anchor chart and book suggestions. These are sure to make teaching the strategy of summarizing a bit easier! (third, fourth, fifth, sixth graders, home school, homeschool) #YoungTeacherLove Fiction Anchor Chart, Teaching Summarizing, Teaching Summary, Summarizing Fiction, Summarizing Activities, English 101, Free Graphic Organizers, Summary Writing, Reading Assessment

FREE! Graphic Organizers: Summarizing Fiction Texts Simplified! - Help your upper elementary students better learn how to summarize text with the great ideas and activities at this blog post. You get a FREE printable graphic organize for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students. Plus check out the anchor chart and book suggestions. These are sure to make teaching the strategy of summarizing a bit easier! (third, fourth, fifth, sixth graders, home school, homeschool) #YoungTeacherLove

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An Apple For The Teacher: Roll and Retell - Building Summarizing, Communication, and Writing Skills Whole Brain Teaching, 3rd Grade Reading, 2nd Grade Reading, First Grade Reading, Teaching Literacy, Reading Intervention, Reading Workshop, Reading Program, Reading Classroom

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

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