Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Small group work for summarization

Small group work on summarization in Specs Log. Introduce vocabulary words. Small group work. See daily unit outline in resources tab.

Practice exercises using Bubbled Flow Chart and Flow Chart Visual Tools and reading. Discussion of work.

Focus questions: What words or phrases best answer the question who? What is the goal or problem? What happened? How did he story resolve? What sentence can I write that best communicates the ideas I included in my notes (the balloons)? Can these sentences be used to form a paragraph summary? If not, revise them.