Summarizaton

​ =Working Together to Build a Summary=

In this lesson, you will be responsible to read one paragraph of a multiple paragraph text. Always remember to idnetify your purpose for reading //before// you read! When you are reading to compose a summary of a text, your purpose will be to find the important details in a text.

//While// reading, you will underline/highlight the important details they find in his/her paragraph.

//After// the student is done reading/highlighting, the students will "chunk" the important details from the paragraph into one sentence; the sentence can now act as the MAIN IDEA of the paragraph.

Once you have have written a MAIN IDEA statement of your paragraph, you should share the statements you composed in the order in which the paragraph occurs in the text.

When you "chunk" you statement together with your classmates', you have just worked together to compose a summary of an entire text! (Yes, it's that simple =)