Summarizing MinilessonName: Josie LuttonGrade Level: 3rd Content: Summarizing Lesson: Summarizing The Giving Tree to help comprehension

Content Objective(s): After reading the book, students will be able to create summary using information they have gathered from the text.

GLE: R1H3iApply post-readings skills to demonstrate comprehension of the text: summarize.

Modifications: Students will get to communicate with a partner.

Materials/Media/Resources: Silverstein, S. (1964). The giving tree. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Anticipatory Set: Has anyone ever given a gift to someone? What did you give them? Why did you give them that? Today we are going to read a story called The Giving Tree.

Instructional Input: Today we are going to be talking about summarizing. A summary is a brief recap of piece of text you have read. We will use the words and the pictures to help us come up with a clear summary of what we have read. Summarizing is important because it helps you remember and understand what you have read.

Modeling/Demonstrating: Begin reading the story to the class, pointing out the characters (the tree and the boy) as I read. From reading this much of the text, I have been able to identify a couple of main characters I am going to write them on the board so that I can remember to include them in my summary. Write the two main characters on the board. Continue reading the book. Pause after the boy tells the tree he would like to make a boat. After reading this far, quite a few things have happened in the text. I am asking myself why the tree keeps giving the boy all these things. Can someone tell me some of the things the tree has given to the boy? Continue reading to the end of the book. If I were going to create a summary of this text, there is a very simple sentence I can use to plug in the important information from the text I just read. Write Somebody wanted but so on the board.

Guided Practice: Point to the sentence on the board. From the text we have just do you think you can come up with information from the text to complete this sentence? Turn to your shoulder partner and discuss things like the main character, the problem in the text, and how it was resolved in the end. Walk around while they are

discussing and listen to the information students are sharing. Choose a student to share their thoughts with the class. Will you share some of your ideas about the text with the class? “We decided that the main characters were the tree and the boy and that the tree gives a lot in the story, but she runs out of things to give eventually.” That is a very good. I like the way you used details from the text. Choose another student to share. Does anyone else have anything that they could add to that? The boy asks too much of the tree but we liked at the end how the boy came back in the end and didn’t want anything from the tree. That is a very true. Now, I want you to go back to your seats and use what we have discussed to write out a summary of the book in your reading journals. Make sure you write clearly and use details from the text.

Checking for Understanding: I will listen and watch closely as students brainstorm and talk about things they could include in their summaries with their shoulder partners and again as we are wrapping things up. They should be able to form an idea for a summary that makes sense and uses information included in the text.

Independent Practice: Students will go back to their desks and get out their reading journals. You should be using the sentence I wrote on the board: Somebody wanted but so. Circulate around the room as they work. When everyone is close to be done allow them to share what they wrote with their shoulder partner. Ok, now help your shoulder partner out- discuss what you wrote and why. Do your summaries use details from the text? Do they make sense?

Closure: Today we learned how to create a summary of a story, based on what we have read and the illustrations. Then, we compared our summaries with the text to make sure they made sense. Creating summaries is a very important reading skill that helps us use the text we have already read to create a shorter recap of the text. Creating summaries causes us, as readers, to understand the text we are reading better and to remember the important pieces of information.

Evaluation/Assessment:

Student’s summaries of the text will be graded using a rubric to see if their summaries were clear and related to details from the text.

Students will use details from the text including character and plot to create a summary of the text they just read. (see rubric on next page)

Summarizing

 

Basic1 pts

Proficient2 pts

Advanced3 pts

Clarifying Able to make a clear summary of what happened in the story.

Basic Is not able to give a clear summary of what happened in the text.

Proficient Is able to give a summary of what happened in the text.

Advanced Is able to give a clear and well-written summary of what happened in the text.

Summary Can make a summary based on details from the text.

Basic Student did not make a summary or summary was not based on details from the passage. The prediction is off topic.

Proficient Summary is acceptable, but there are not details from the passage to support the summary.

Advanced Summary is acceptable and based on details from the passage. Summary is based on characters and the plot of the text.

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