Last week I wrote about teaching my elementary students how to write a summary. I discussed the graphic organizer I created and my initial lessons done with the whole class and in small groups. This week my focus is on how I continued teaching this strategy, and eventually how I extended it across the curriculum. […]
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Writing a summary from text is an important process skill elementary students need to acquire. With regard to both literature and information text, the CCSS requires students to identify themes or main ideas and summarize the information. Like many teachers, I’ve been reading the standards listed for my 4th grade students in the Common Core
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