Mastering the Art of Summary Writing - Google Slides

These are Google Slides designed to help students master the art of summarisation. Summarisation is an essential skill for effective reading, writing and comprehension. This is a carefully crafted resource aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Common Core Standards for ELA-Literacy in Writing. The goal of this resource is to guide students through the process of summarisation with a comprehensive approach that covers essential learning objectives and success criteria. This resource aims to enhance summarisation skills, ensuring students can remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create effective summaries. Every student has unique needs, and the differentiated approach ensures that students receive the support that suits their level and requirements.

This resource includes:

REMEMBERING

• Match the do’s of the summary with their reasons for doing it.
• Match the don’ts of the summary with their reasons not to do them.

UNDERSTANDING

• Match the author’s language with its impact on the readers.
• Use 5-FINGER RETELL strategy to give a sentence summary of the fable “The Hare and the Tortoise”.
• Use 5W1H technique to give a sentence summary of the fable “The Hare and the Tortoise”.
• Select a phrase that best summarises the given extracts.

APPLYING

• Annotate the text, identify the problems caused by ‘hippo’ and tackle them.
• Select relevant material from the given text and plan your summary using the planning frame.
• Use the sample plan to write the first draft of the summary.
• Use the word bank to write the first draft of the summary.
• Use the sentence frame to write the summary.

ANALYSING

• Analyse the summary and identify the do’s and don’ts.

EVALUATING

• Evaluate the summary for the author’s use of language.
• Evaluate the summaries to say which of these are right and wrong and why.

CREATING

• Differentiated Tasks.
• Each task has a prompt, passage, planning frame and sentence frame.
• Rubrics, both for reading and writing, to assess student outcomes.

More reading and writing resources by the same author:

• Description
• Narrative Writing
• Persuasive Writing
• Argumentative Writing
• Newspaper Report
• Biography
• Information Text
• Diary Entry
• Magazine Article
• Summary Writing
• Descriptive Writing

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