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Lesson Plan
Summarize a Nonfiction Text
Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to write effective nonfiction text summaries. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Create a Non-fiction Text Summary lesson plan.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to analyze academic vocabulary and condense nonfiction text into 3–4 sentence summaries.
Language
Students will be able to use the most important parts of a nonfiction text to write a summary.
Introduction
(2 minutes)
- Access prior knowledge of summaries by writing it on the board and asking for volunteers to define.
- Complete a Frayer Model with the students for the term summary and check student comprehension throughout by asking them to orally repeat the definition or provide examples.
- Tell students that today they will analyze new words, sentences, and a paragraph to help them understand how to write a short summary.