Summarizing…

Fourth graders finished a unit on summarizing what they have read.  In order to summarize the students needed to identify the main idea of the text read along with supporting details.  Identifying the main idea can be difficult to narrow down, but they learned to think and use the topic in their main idea sentences to get them started.  Along with identifying the main idea, students could easily come up with details but often the details didn’t support the main idea.  Evaluating supporting details will take practice and focus.  We will continue to review this skill in the next few months.

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