• Learning Objective: How do you summarize a reading passage effectively?

• ALL: Can identify 5 key points in a fiction text.

• MOST: Can identify what makes a successful summary and apply these skills
to a new text.

• SOME: Can make a prediction to what happens next in a text and summarise
their ideas effectively.
 Vocabulary Meaning Show you can use the word
Research key words from the text and in a sentence
complete the chart
tributes an act, statement, or gift that is
the video is a tribute to the
https://www.dictionary.com/ intended to show gratitude,
respect, or admiration. musicals of the 40s
a complicated irregular network of
labyrinth passages or paths in which it is
the building was so labyrinth it
was hard to find my way
difficult to find one's way; a maze.

sacrifice
Challenge
write a sentence using each key word. slay

jeered

puny

tusk
 How do you summarize a reading passage effectively?

Answers on mini white board.

Challenge
why is summary an essential skill in all
subjects?
 Use key word chart to support understanding of the text.
Meaning Show you can use the
• In groups read the extract from Theseus and Vocabulary
word in a sentence
the Minotaur. tributes

labyrinth
• Each student in the group read a section of
the text aloud, while the other students sacrifice

listen and follow along. slay

jeered

• Students add new vocabulary to their chart puny

from the starter activity and look up tusk
meanings if necessary.
Challenge
prediction: What happens next?

BQ: How do you summarize a reading passage effectively?

 # Success Criteria Completed
1 Explained 5 key points in the story.
• In your group, identify 5 key points in Who? 2 Who, what, when, where, why?
the text. What? 3 Use of effective, clear vocabulary so
• What makes a good summary? Use as When? your ideas are clear.
success criteria. Where? 4 Good range of both simple and
• Independent work. Using 5 key points as Why? complex sentence structures so
a starting point, students write a writing is easy to read.
summary of the text. 5 Writing is logical and uses correct
paragraphing and punctuation.
ALL: 30 words Answers
MOST: 50 words Challenge – prediction: What happens
on a
SOME: 75 words + next?
word
Write 20-word summary of your
doc.
prediction.

BQ: How do you summarize a reading passage effectively?

Complete a self-assessment # Success Criteria Completed

based on success criteria. 1 Explained 5 key points in the story.

2 Who, what, when, where, why?
Which criteria do you 3 Use of effective, clear vocabulary so your ideas are
complete? clear.

WWW x2 4 Good range of both simple and complex sentence

structures so writing is easy to read.
EBI x 2 Be ready to
feedback to
the group. 5 Writing is logical and uses correct paragraphing
and punctuation.

BQ: How do you summarize a reading passage effectively?

 How do you summarize a reading passage effectively?

Answers on mini white board.

Challenge
why is summary an essential skill in all
subjects?