Since summaries of a fiction text can vary so much, it can be hard to know if you have it right. Today we looked at story maps. Story maps help us organize the information from a piece of text into a summary without accidentally infusing our own connections or perspectives into the summary.
Here is how we did it. After reading a story (this would work for a chapter too probably) we organized the information into categories: characters, conflict, 3 events from the selection that support/offer evidence of the conflict and solution. Once our information is organized, we know we have the right summary because the events match the conflict. We can then write the summary using either the frame Somebody Wanted but So or just by paraphrasing what is in our story map.
This would be a great activity to have your student do after they have done their reading homework. You don't even have to have read the book to know if it is right because the events should match the conflict. If they don't, your student either got the wrong conflict or the wrong details.
Homework: Read 30 minutes. Make sure you have at least finished a chapter of your book for our Somebody Wanted But So quiz tomorrow.
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