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Make summarizing and finding a theme easy! Just use a story arc. Check out this blog post on enjoy-teaching.com for free videos and templates. RL.4.2

Need to know how to help students write summaries? These lesson ideas and summarizing ideas and tips for the upper elementary classroom will help you teach summarizing and help your students write summaries as they read.

A blog full of tips, lessons, and ideas to use in the upper elementary classroom.

Each classroom brings students of multiple learning styles and backgrounds. It is our job to provide opportunities that reach all of the many different learning styles that come to us. For this reason, it is

Teaching summarizing can be fun! In this post, we break down how to teach kids to summarize fiction, including ways to practice this skill.

Need some fresh ideas on how to teach summarizing so your students actually understand it? Come & grab my best tips and tricks that you can use right away!

Hey friends! My mind is BLOWN with the fact that today, I took down my January calendar and put up FEBRUARY! I think my nostrils are beginning to smell saltwater ;) Back to reality! This past week reviewed summary in fiction stories. I don't know about you, but my kids pretty much thought summary was sequencing every event in the story and then just picking an answer choice based on luck. I am a list person that loves to color code, so why couldn't I bring that into my classroom? First, we…

Theme, Teaching Theme in your ELA block; hands-on activities and reading activities to help students determine theme (RL.4.2, RL4.2)