This lesson provides an effective strategy for teaching students how to summarize and analyze informational texts with a 7-step approach: Previewing the text features, locating the main idea, reading closely and annotating, identifying key words/concepts, rereading, summarizing, and analyzing author's purpose.
The 15-page lesson includes Common Core State Standards in reading and writing, lesson objectives, 4-page detailed guidelines and suggestions for modeling and teaching the strategy, a st