When your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students have conflict, have them use what they have learned about summarizing and retelling to explain the problem and come up with a possible solution.

Secrets on Using Retelling / Summarizing Strategies to Create a Behavior Breakthrough

Written by Guest Blogger Miss Sonjia Colson In my experience, one of the most difficult tasks can be creating the pattern of how as a teacher you choose to react to student “drama.” Students as early as kindergarten are natural born storytellers and create their own drama!  Kids want to be heard, especially when conflict arises. As a teacher, when …

Tips and Activity Ideas to help you teach 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students how to summarize fiction and nonfiction / informational texts

Teaching Summarizing So Students Actually Understand

Teaching summarizing seems like it should be easy. When 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students summarize, they don’t have to come up with any of their own ideas – all they have to do is briefly tell the most important parts of a book or reading passage that they read. Sounds pretty easy…but it’s not. Teachers have all sorts of …