Sammy the Summarizer

This week Sammy the Summarizer taught us how to summarize. He's the last of the Fabulous Four. Good readers predict, clarify, ask questions, and summarize. When reading students should be switching through all of these strategies as needed. Summarizing is difficult but the students have been working hard. Summarizing is shorter than retelling. Students should use their own words and they should tell the main ideas. We use time order words like first, then, next, and finally. Check out these summaries that we worked on together yesterday.