Summarizing

Today we learned another strategy for summarizing books that we read. We know that when we summarize, we aren't retelling all the details from the story, we are just giving the "gist" of what happened. One strategy that we learned earlier in the year was the "Someone Wants But So" strategy. Today in class we learned that, by answering the 6 questions, Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, this will help you summarize a story. Here is a picture of our summary of Chester the Worldly Pig.

Also, we are learning new vocabulary words this week: edit, revise and revision. Since it is only Tuesday, we have only learned edit (to correct punctuation, spelling, grammar) and revise (to make more clear, to make better). Try and go into your orange Language Folder every night and review your words, we will have a quiz this Friday! :)

Leave a comment and tell us a summary of a book you've read using either "Someone, Wants, But, So" or the 6 questions!