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SUMMARIZING A Reader’s Workshop Mini -Lesson

Summarizing  A summary is a short statement of the main points of a story or other text.

One way to summarize is complete this sentence about the text: Somebody_______ wanted ______ but ____ so______ then__________.

True Story from the FBI Extra! Extra! Newspaper Boy Uncovers Spy Ring On a normal Monday evening in 1953, a delivery boy for the "Brooklyn Eagle" knocked on the door of one of his customers in an apartment building in Brooklyn, New York. He was collecting money for his newspapers. A lady answered the door, disappeared for a moment, and then returned with her purse. "Sorry, Jimmy," she said. "I don't have any change. Can you break this dollar bill for me?" The newspaper boy counted the coins in his pocket but did not have enough for change. "I'll ask the people across the hall" he said. Two ladies across the hall were able to combine coins from their pocketbooks for change. After he collected for the newspaper, Jimmy left the apartment house jingling several coins in his left hand. One of the coins seemed to have a strange sound. The newspaper boy rested this coin, a nickel, on the middle of his finger. It felt lighter than an ordinary nickel. He dropped the nickel on the floor and it fell apart! Inside was a tiny photograph -- a photo of what looked like a bunch of numbers. Jimmy's nickel became a key piece of evidence in uncovering a spy ring from the Soviet Union in the 1950s!

Use this chart to complete the summary. Somebody Wanted But So Then

Use the chart to get the main points. Somebody Wanted But So Then A newspaper to collect She didn’t he had to get he ended up boy named payment from have change change from with a fake Jimmy a lady someone else coin with spy info inside.

The summary. A newspaper boy named Jimmy wanted to collect payment from a lady but she didn’t have any change so he had to get it from someone else then he ended up with a fake coin with spy information inside.

You Try! Hansel and Gretel’s evil stepmother sent them into the woods to get lost. The children left a trail but couldn’t find their way home. They discovered a candy cottage and went inside only to be captured by a witch who wanted to eat them. Eventually, Gretel was able to push the witch into the fire, and the children went home.

Use this chart to get the main points. Somebody Wanted But So Then Hansel and Hansel and They went to They were Gretel Gretel’s evil Gretel to get a candy captured by a pushes the step mother lost in the cottage witch who witch into woods wanted to the fire and eat them they go home.