Sum Up a Story and an Article (Grade 1)
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Sum Up a Story and an Article (Grade 1)
Summaries for Grade 1: read a short story and a short article, tell what happens at the beginning, middle, and end of the story and sum it up, and write the article’s central idea with a detail that supports it. With an answer key.
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Sum Up a Story or an ArticleA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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- Time
- About 10 minutes
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Read a short story or a short text about real things, answer questions about its key details, put its events in order, retell it, and say its main idea or lesson.
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How to use this sheet
- Read the passage aloud together first, then have the child read it alone before the questions.
- Read each question aloud and have the child find the paragraph that holds the answer, and point to it.
- Ask one question that is not on the sheet, such as "What do you think happens next?"
Common mistakes
- Answering from what they know instead of from the passage. Ask "Where does it say that?"
- Choosing an answer because it uses a word from the passage, even if it does not answer the question.
- Forgetting the order of events in a story. Have the child retell it: first, next, then, last.
