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Lesson Plan

Read Write Think: Get the Gist: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content Area

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A five-part standards-based lesson in which middle schoolers learn to write a 20 word summary of an informational text by focusing on answering the questions who, what, when, where, why, and how. This strategy can be applied to any content area, and a printable template is available.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
expository text
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Additional Tags
five w and h questions, summarize, ncte, readwritethink, informational text, summary, writing summaries
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)