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Basic Fiction Summaries

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.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Fiction Genres Library Exploration lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Fiction Genres Library Exploration lesson plan.

Objectives

Academic

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.