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3rd Grade Reading Response: Summarize a Paragraph
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Today I am practising: writing a concise summary with central ideas and key details
1
Read one short paragraph twice.
2
Name who or what the paragraph is mostly about.
3
List two key details.
4
Cross out one interesting detail that is not needed in a summary.
5
Write a one- or two-sentence summary.
6
Read it to an adult and check that it does not add a new opinion.
- Choose a paragraph with one clear main idea and enough concrete details.
- Model how a summary is shorter than a retell before the child writes.
- Ask the child to trace each summary idea back to the paragraph.