Objective: Students will be able to identify important details within a text and discern which are necessary to include in order to develop an effective, succinct summary of a work.
Essential Questions:
- How do details help you understand the meaning of the passage?
- How can writing a summary help us determine if we understand the text?
- What can readers do if they don’t understand a text?
Enduring Understandings:
- Details like who the text is about, what is happening, how it’s happening, why it’s happening, and when it’s happening can help a reader to understand the meaning of a passage.
- Strategies, like writing summaries, are important because they can help readers to determine if they’ve understood the text.
- When readers don’t understand the text, they engage in problem solving strategies like rereading and using annotations.
Standards:
| Grade 3: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1 – Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. | Grade 4: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. | Grade 5:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. |
Materials:
- Printed copy of “The Gulls of Salt Lake”
- Slips of paper or mini post-its
- Pen or pencil
- Computer
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