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Austin Independent School District: Summary of Fiction and Nonfiction Text [Pdf]

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This 31-page document focuses on teaching summarizing strategies for use with fiction and nonfiction texts. This series of lesson plans starts with fiction summarizing strategies such as "Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then" and "Story Arch." Then it moves on to nonfiction strategies with lesson plans on answering who, what, when, where, why, and how questions in order to create a summary. Most strategies include graphic organizers in English and Spanish.

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CCSS: Adaptable
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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