Two Reflective Teachers: Summary Writing in Nonfiction Unit Part 1 | Summary writing, Teaching reading, Summarizing nonfiction
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This week, we started working on writing summaries for the nonfiction articles we are reading. I think it is always important for students to know and understand the purpose for WHY they are doing something so our first minilesson started with turning and talking about what they think of when they hear the word summary and why they think we write summaries. I recorded their responses on the anchor chart below. I also think it is important for teachers to write and model their own writing for…