Central Idea Lesson: Writing an Objective Summary, Grades 6-8

"You tell a friend about a movie they haven't seen. What do you leave out?" A good summary keeps the big picture and leaves out small scenes, exact lines and, in an objective summary, your own opinion. This lesson gives students four rules and plenty of practice following them.

What's inside

• 14 slides, with speaker notes on all 14
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Reading passage (an argument), 1 page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page, with a model summary and a 5-point rubric
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 6 pages

Answer key included

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