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What they are:
What they are:
A summary sentence is a one-sentence summary of a section of text, an image, or a video. Summary sentences build on the work of sentence expansion activities. In summary sentences, use a similar tool to the sentence expansion activity to write a descriptive sentence that identifies the main ideas of a text.
How it works: After exposing students to a text, the teacher provides students with a note-taker that has list of informational prompts designed to help students identify the main details of the text.
Students fill in additional information in response to the prompts and finish the activity by writing one sentence that includes all of the information.
Why to use it: Having students summarize the main idea of a section of text, video, or picture in one sentence is a great check for understanding tool. This sentence can then easily become the topic sentence of a longer paragraph.
When to use it: You can use this strategy to check understanding of a reading, image, video, or other text
How to teach it:
Start by watching a video or reading an accessible text. After students are finished reading or viewing the text, present them with a summary sentence activity worksheet.
**For the first few times that you use this strategy, provide students with the "who" already filled in.**
As a class, ask students to help you complete the rest of the prompt questions that make sense with the text they read (sometimes a text won't have information that answers all of the question words).
Then, model how to combine all of these pieces into one summary sentence that includes all of the information.
After you are done modeling one response, have students practice in small groups with additional sections of text.
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