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The document provides a method for teaching students to summarize stories in 5 sentences or less without retelling the entire plot. It uses the examples of "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Cinderella" summarized into 5 sentences following the structure of "Someone", "Wanted", "But", "So", "Then" to demonstrate how to pull out the most important details of who, what they wanted, what got in the way, what happened next, and the result. It also includes a template that can be used while reading to help students practice this summarization technique.

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The document provides a method for teaching students to summarize stories in 5 sentences or less without retelling the entire plot. It uses the examples of "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Cinderella" summarized into 5 sentences following the structure of "Someone", "Wanted", "But", "So", "Then" to demonstrate how to pull out the most important details of who, what they wanted, what got in the way, what happened next, and the result. It also includes a template that can be used while reading to help students practice this summarization technique.

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Summarizing

made easy:
Get your students to
summarize stories
without re-telling the
whole story. Using this
method, your students
should pick out the
most important
information from the
plot..

*Someone
* Wanted
* But
* So
* Then

Little Red Riding Hood:

Someone
Little Red Riding Hood

Wanted
To take a basket of goodies to her grandmother

But
The big, bad wolf went to her grandmothers house

and ate her grandmother

So
Little Red had to call for help

Then
The woodcutter came along and did away with the

wolf and saved the grandmother.

Cinderella:

Someone
Cinderella

Wanted
To go to the ball

But
Her evil step-mother and sisters didnt want her to go

So
Her fairy god-mother came along and turned things

around for her

Then
She went to the ball and the prince fell for her

How to monitor understanding:


Someone
Wanted
But
So
Then

Use this chart or something similar when


reading new stories to allow students to
practice summarizing as they read.

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