Writing a summary informational text

Nonfiction Summaries - Teaching with a Mountain View

An easy way to teach students to write summaries.

We've done a lot in the past three days. I'll do my best to keep you all caught up! I've been having some issues with my computer so it was a little bit of a struggle to blog this week. We created a publishing anchor chart to add to our Writer's Workshop wall. We discussed that a published piece of writing is a cleaned-up version of our revised and edited version. When a student is publishing, we should see their sloppy copy, their Quick Word book, and their clean looseleaf paper on their…

Do your students need help summarizing informational text? Use the TAAMIO strategy to write great informational text summaries.

Teach your elementary students about Summarizing Informational Text: A Simple Strategy to Write an Summary. Summarizing nonfiction text teaches them to determine the most important ideas in a text, ignore unimportant information & connect the main idea & key details of a text in a logical way. It also helps improve memory & comprehension of a text. Students will learn the main idea, important or key details, follow the text structure & putting it all together. (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grade)

Year after year my students struggled with summaries, and then I started using this method for teaching summary writing. Eureka! I will never again teach this skill without this summary anchor chart.

Summary: Nonfiction and Fiction

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