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Lesson Plan

Summary Raceway: Summarizing Fiction

Start Your Engines! It's time to teach your students how to summarize fiction text as you race down Summary Raceway.
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Learning Objectives

With the support of the Summary Raceway organizer, students will be able to summarize fiction text.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Gather students on in a common area.
  • Tell students they will learn how to summarize a fiction passage or story with the support of the Summary Raceway organizer.
  • Ask students if they know what a summary is.
  • Explain that a summary is a description of the all of the main events in a story. It includes the main idea of the story, and some details about its characters and events.
  • Read the poem Summary Raceway to introduce the lesson.