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Reading Strategy 10

“Summarize what has been read.”

Good readers restate the gist of the text in their own words.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Collaborative Summaries
  • Directed Reading/Thinking
  • Jigsaw
  • Listen-Sketch-Predict
  • Oral Storytelling
  • Plot Profile – Story Graph
  • Plot Profile – Story Map
  • Say Something
  • Semantic Mapping/Webbing
  • Sociogram
  • Story Board
  • Story Cycles
  • Story Grammar
  • Think Aloud

Header-Reading-Writing-Connect-Activities-2Primary
  • Dooby Dooby Moo
  • Frisson l’écureuil
  • The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
  • I Wish You More
  • Is There Really a Human Race?
  • Move Over, Rover!
  • Peace Is an Offering
  • Salmon Creek
  • Taan’s Moons
  • The BFG
  • The Most Magnificent Thing
  • The Salamander Room

Intermediate
  • Baseball Saved Us
  • Crickwing
  • Duncan’s Way
  • La belle lisse poire
  • Orca Chief
  • Out of My Mind
  • People of the Land
  • Storm Boy
  • The Man Who Counted
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • Wonder

Secondary
  • Childhood Obesity
  • The Emperor of Maladies
  • L’il Trig’s Big Adventure
  • The Rabbits (Secondary)
  • The Three Questions
  • The Trouble with Testosterone
  • Way Home
teacher hints

Suggested teacher questions:

"What are the key issues in this piece of text? What makes you think that?"

"What are the five most important ideas/events in the passage?"

"What is this story about (in three to five sentences)?"

"What clues help us determine the main idea?" (Think of topic sentences, headings, bold words, important details.)

"What happened in the beginning, middle, end?"

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