1. Learning Objective: Writing Summaries
Do gestures with students. Open one hand for compare and another hand for contrast and ask students to repeat

2. What will we learn today?
How to write summaries
CFU: Call on non volunteer
Define combine and related
Have students repeat the word appositive
What are we combining today? (sentences)
What are we using to combine related sentences today? (appositives)

3. Partner Share
Read this passage and restate to your partner what this paragraph is about
Chimps live in groups and like each other a lot, but sometimes they fight. Because they don’t want to be angry at each other after they had a fight, they make up by holding a hand out to the other and kissing. They show they are sorry with pats and hugs. Then the anger goes away.
Have students write answer on whiteboards.
Hold them up
Call on 3 non-volunteers
Ask why did you choose “and”
Go over conjunctions with students

4. Summary Writing Summary is paraphrasing something you read.
Example: Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem.
What is a summary?
CFU: Ask students what is an appositive?
Why is “our principal” an appositive? (because it gives more description)

5. Why is it important?
If know how to write a summary it shows that you understand what you read.
Read the importance and have students offer other reasons: call on non-volunteers
Call on volunteers to offer more details

6. Steps for Writing a Summary
Read the passage
Reread the passage and place summarized main ideas inside a flow map
Circle main ideas that are related
Transfer main ideas to flee map and make introduction
Write supporting details and transitions
Write conclusion
Go to text
Go to flow
Go to flow
Read each step and model process
CFU: Discuss with partner how the two sentences are related , How are two sentence related(call on non volunteer
CFU: Discuss the appositive that would describe the subject what word or words would be the appositive
Go to flee
Go to flee
Go to flee

7. The Japanese Art of Bonsai
Step 1- Read
The Japanese Art of Bonsai

8. Go to steps

9. Go to steps
Flow Map

10. Go back to steps
Go to Flow