Summarizing

When we returned to school, we started Unit 4: Summarizing and Fix-Up monitoring strategies in fourth grade reading. We read several articles and practiced our skills.

One article was the Land of Ice and Snow. We use what we learned in the first unit of Main Idea and Details to figure out the big ideas: titles, pictures and captions, repeating words, first and last lines, and we summarize each paragraph into our "big ideas". After reading and rereading, we take our big ideas and use them to craft our summary. Our papers can get messy as we are actively reading and taking notes.