This lesson gives students a structure to help them summarize fiction texts. When they are skilled at summarizing, they will be more capable of exploring various fiction genres. Use it as a precursor to Fiction Genres Library Exploration.
Students will be able to describe and identify various fictional genres in the classroom or school library.
Language
Students will be able to write a simple summary of a fiction text with key summary phrases using the structured framework of "someone, wanted, but, so, then" and a paragraph frame.
Introduction
(2 minutes)
Read aloud the language objective and have students repeat it.
Tell students that they will learn a framework or strategy for summarizing, or telling the main points of, short fiction texts.