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Sentence Structures for Summarizing
In this support lesson, your ELs will use key vocabulary and sentence structures to summarize a story. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Comparing and Contrasting Book Series.
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Academic
Students will be able to identify the two different kinds of book series and list the criteria used to classify them.
Language
Students will be able to summarize a story with sentence structures using keywords and sentence frames.
Introduction
(1 minutes)
- Tell students that today they will be learning some sentence structures that will help them summarize stories. Remind them that a summary tells the main idea of a book, like the main characters and the main events in the story.
- Explain that in order to compare books or series, they need to understand the main idea in each book.