“Summarizing is easy as pie!”   Reading to Learn Lesson Design
By: Noelle Jones   Rational: Summarization is an important part
of comprehending text. In order to become better skillful
readers, students must be able to find key points and main ideas
throughout a story. This lesson will help students learn how to
find the key points and separate the main ideas in a story in
order to summarize a text after observing how the teacher models
how to delete trivial information and pick out the important
points.  Materials: Pencil, paper, highlighter, black sharpees,
chalk, chalkboard, passage example on Smartboard (students will
have an individual printed copy of the passage as well),
classroom copies of “The Big Oil Spill” article from National
Wildlife Federation, and classroom copies of “A Disastrous Oil
Spill” article from Time for Kids.   1. The teacher will say,
“Today we are going to learn about the importance of
summarization. What do you think it means to summarize? (The
teacher should allow enough time fo