Lesson Plan

Finding the Good Stuff in What We Read

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Students work to develop comprehension strategies. They focus on three rules for summarizing: getting rid of extra information, organizing, and finding the main idea. Through modeling and then guided practice, they apply these rules to summarize several passages in their science or social studies books.

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Grade
5th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Instructional Strategy
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