1. Why Summarize?
Helps students learn to determine main ideas and consolidate supporting details.
Enables students to focus on key words and phrases of an assigned text that are worth noting and remembering.

2. Framework Questions What are the main ideas?
What are the crucial details necessary for supporting the ideas?
What information is irrelevant or unnecessary?
Jones, R. (2007). Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Summarizing. Retrieved 2008, January 29, from
Guthrie, J. T. (2003). Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction: Practices of Teaching Reading for Understanding. In C. Snow & A. Sweet (Eds.), Reading for Understanding: Implications of RAND Report for Education (pp ). New York: Guilford.

3. Somebody Wanted But So
Narrative Text

4. Wanted a pair of suede shoes (56) But he didn’t have the money
Somebody
Wanted
But So
Roger
Wanted a pair of suede shoes (56)
But he didn’t have the money
So, he tried to “snatch” Mrs. Jones pocketbook to get the money.
Then
Mrs. Jones
Grabbed Roger and held him tight
But didn’t let go until she got him back to her apartment.
Roger had to go with Mrs. Jones to her apartment.
wanted to know why Roger wanted the pocketbook
But Roger didn’t tell her at first
So, she decided he should wash his face.
wanted to run away
but he didn’t
So he listened to Mrs. Jones talk about how she made mistakes too.
wanted Mrs. Jones to trust him
But “did not trust the woman not to trust him” (58).
So he sat where she could “see him out of the corner of her eye if she wanted too” (58).
Wanted to help Roger
But she didn’t want to just feed him food or give him $10
So, she taught him right from wrong p55
Wanted to say “Thank you, m’am” 59
But all he could do was move his lips
So he just “turned at the foot of the barren stoop and looked up at the large woman in the door.”
When Kids Can’t Read by Kylene Beers 2003 pp
Thank you M’am by Langston Hughes

5. Who/What Purpose But So
Informational Text

6. Has the most famous cemeteries in the world
Who or What
Purpose
but So
Monterozzi
Has the most famous cemeteries in the world
They are not like other cemeteries
They are painted tombs carved out of rock as houses for the after live
Etruscans
Built the tombs
Their language is difficult to decipher
We study their paintings.
Tarquinia
Provides archaeologists evidence of artistic styles and tastes of the Etruscans
But it reflects only the life of the wealthiest Etruscans.
So, we know little of what the poor Etruscans thought of life and death.
Romans
Borrowed many features of the Etruscan’s culture
But many were frightened by the cemeteries
So it was not until 1489, that an excavation of the tombs took place.
Water and neglect
Destroyed some of the tombs`
Visitor notes and sketchbooks
Provide information no longer “obtainable from the tombs themselves” p356.
A Hill Reveals Its Secrets by R. Anthony Kugler

7. Who/What Purpose But So
Persuasive Text - Speech

8. Absolve allegiance to the Great Britain (declare independence) (p2)
Who or What
Purpose or Do
but So
Continental Congress
Absolve allegiance to the Great Britain (declare independence) (p2)
Independence is not shared equally (p4)
Americans are hypocritical (p6)
American government
Denounce slavery (p6)
Do not stop the slave-trade (p6)
"fiendish and shocking" "spectacle" of the American slave-trade continues (p7)
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? By Frederick Douglass 1852