Duck On A Bike is a story that is great for writing in response to reading.
http://www.eledblog.com/content/david-shannons-duck-bike-mentor-text-inner-thinking
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Summary (narrative) – a shortened version of the original story or article. It should include a beginning, middle and end. It includes information about the characters and setting, the situation or problem the character is facing 2 – 3 events that happened as the characters deal with their situation or problem. It includes information about the [...]
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Before Reading
Scan the selection: read the title and the nonfiction conventions.
Read the heading(s). The heading is a hint of what the next paragraph/section is about. The author is saying, “I am going to tell you about…”
Read / Look at the photographs. I know that the photographs help me understand exactly what something looks like compared [...]
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50 Essential Lessons by Jim Burke is an awesome resource! Two lessons are about Summarization. Lesson 22: Summarize and Lesson 23: Write an Effective Paragraph are both lessons that I refer to in this blog post. Jim Burke deserves all the credit! I recommend Jim’s 50 lessons to all HS teachers (college too). They work.
Summary [...]
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Summarizing is explained really well in Explaining Reading by Gerald Duffy.
Sometimes summarizing and determining the main idea are confused. Summarizing is when students create a brief retelling of an entire text. Determining the main idea is when students find the one single important idea.
Usually students want to tell everything they have read. Kids struggle with [...]
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This group of students is working through the Somebody Wanted But So summary strategy with their first grade teacher. All the other first graders were working independently on this strategy today since the teacher had already taught the strategy effectively.
After reading a selection, have the students think about what happened. Then [...]
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