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Start-Up Activity
Have students page through a typical chapter (or a section from a chapter) from either a science or social studies textbook. Tell them that the subject of this All Write chapter—writing a summary—will help them remember the main ideas from their other academic texts. Then ask a volunteer to read page 181 of All Write aloud. In your discussion of this page, it might be helpful to compare the summary of a written text to the box score of a baseball game, which serves as a summary of the game. Ask students if they can think of comparable summaries (recipes, parts of manuals, brief reviews, etc.).
Think About It
“The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to fact.”
—Charles H. Parkhurst
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Start-Up Activity
Have students page through a typical chapter (or a section from a chapter) from either a science or social studies textbook. Tell them that the subject of this All Write chapter—writing a summary—will help them remember the main ideas from their other academic texts. Then ask a volunteer to read page 181 of All Write aloud. In your discussion of this page, it might be helpful to compare the summary of a written text to the box score of a baseball game, which serves as a summary of the game. Ask students if they can think of comparable summaries (recipes, parts of manuals, brief reviews, etc.).
Think About It
“The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to fact.”
—Charles H. Parkhurst
