Sum Up an Article: Central Idea and Details (Grade 3)
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Sum Up an Article: Central Idea and Details (Grade 3)
Article summary for Grade 3: read a short article on how beavers build dams and lodges, choose the central idea and a detail that supports it and explain how, leave out a small detail, pick the best summary, and write the central idea and a summary of your own. 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 20 minutes
- Answer key
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Read stories and texts about real things, answer questions by pointing to the words in the text that show the answer, find the main idea and the details that support it, and explain how a character's actions move the story on.
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How to use this sheet
- Have the child read the questions first, then read the passage with them in mind.
- Have the child underline the sentence that answers each question and write the paragraph number beside the answer.
- For main idea questions, ask the child to say what the whole passage is about in one sentence.
Common mistakes
- Giving a detail as the main idea. A main idea is what the whole passage is about, not one paragraph.
- Treating an inference question as a "find it" question. The answer is not written; the clues are.
- Mixing up the lesson of a story with what happens in it. The lesson is what a character learns.
