Summarize information presented in text. 0501.6.10

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1. Creating a One-Sentence Summary from Supporting Details - online 2 question quiz; self checking [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
2. Determine what is important - this lesson unit focuses on text rather than speech but will help students understand what to look for orally as well as written.
3. Incredible Shrinking Notes - lesson plan on how to summarize what is heard
4. Lesson Plans on Summarizing
   1. The 'Bear' Facts about Summarization
   2. Mapping Out Summarization
   3. Shaking Things Up In Summarization
   4. Slim Down to the Good Stuff by Summarizing
   5. Index of Other Summarizing Lesson Plans - scroll most of the way down the page to section IV
5. Story Shackles (Linking Students To Written Text) - lesson plan - Story Shackles is an imaginative and stimulating way for students to acquire the ability to retell events of a story or text, sequence the action or happenings in a story, or to simply summarize the plot, main ideas with supporting details, or general information of a story or text
6. Sum it Up! - a worksheet to print for your students to use in summarizing - A suggestion from the worksheet tells students "Imagine you only have $2.00, and each word you use will cost you 10 cents."
7. Sum it Up! - Instructions - instructions for students before they use the summarizing worksheet
8. Summarizing - review the basics of summarizing, identify main idea statements and detail statements, and use categories to summarize lists
9. Summarizing - lesson on learning to summarize
10. Summarizing - three page article which includes instructions for a process called 50% summary and a sample summary of a short article
11. Summary vs. Critique - explanation of what each does and does not do
12. Text Summarizer - this automatic text summarizer allows you to input some parameters including the percentage of the original text to be output

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