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.