[MOSAIC] Summarizing

[Julie Santello]

A great example of summarizing a story comes from Cynthia Rylant's  
series called Little Whistle.  You need to read Little Whistle  
first.  Then the others start with a summary of Little Whistle.  Each  
book has a different summary.  You can point out how she uses only  
important information within the summary.  For my second graders I  
made a lit. circle role sheet that is summarizer, but modified it  
with a line "beginning of chapter" "middle of chapter", and "end of  
chapter" so that they know they have to have some from each part of  
the chapter in their summary.  I will ween them off this as the year  
goes on.
Just some thoughts,
Julie/FL/2nd


On Nov 16, 2006, at 8:46 AM, kmaratto at aol.com wrote:

> I am going to be doing summarizing with third graders and some  
> students will be reading chapter books.  Does anyone know of any  
> good graphic organizers or ways to teach students how to summarize  
> chapter books?  I imagine that I should do it chapter by chapter.   
> Any ideas would be helpful!
> Thanks,
> Kim
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