Summarizing 3rd grade

Teaching students to summarize seems like it should be fairly easy. There are no comprehension questions, no digging deeper into the text and no activating prior knowledge. After all everything they need is right there in front of them. In this blogpost I'll share 5 ways to help your students master summarizing. But easy is

Summarizing is one of the hardest strategies to teach and for students to learn. Many students will retell the text ... almost word for word when asked to give a summary. In order for students to learn the difference between a retelling and a summary, teachers must model, model, model summarizing often. According to Dr. Jan Richardson, when we ask our students to summarize they ... write too much or not enough do not capture the most important ideas copy word for word from the text do not…

Does summarizing seem so much harder for your students than it should be? I hear ya - and I'm here to help! Here's the lowdown on why students struggle and how you can make those struggles a thing of the past.

Teaching summarizing fiction? Try using story element examples. When kids learn to pick them out, writing a summary is easy.

Teaching kids to summarize can be a tricky task! But using the basic signal words, kids can determine what's important to summarize text. {FREE printable}

Teachers, are you looking for summary anchor chart, graphic organizers, writing activities, modeled writing, and ideas to help your 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students master the art of writing summaries? This blog post includes different ways to teach summarizing to help you differentiated instruction for your upper elementary students. Click to read the blog post and scoop up some summary freebies, too!

Let's talk Summarizing! I get a lot of questions like "Isn't August/September too early to introduce summarizing?" And I say ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Summarizing Anchor Chart - uses the Somebody Wanted But So Then (SWBST) strategy. Books and sticky notes can be easily added and changed out with new books. #Regram via @storiesbystorie

Each classroom brings students of multiple learning styles and backgrounds. It is our job to provide opportunities that reach all of the many different learning styles that come to us. For this reason, it is