Description
**CCSS aligned**
Welcome to the Lit Café where words are the food!
Introduce or practice the idea of objective summaries with this fun, easy, ready-to-go, mini-lesson. Invite your students to the Lit Café. Students read very short, engaging stories and summarize them based on the "somebody, wanted, but, so, then" method. Students take notes on a guided-note placemat, read stories from a menu, and write summaries on a plate.
Included in this resource:
- Detailed lesson plan
- Lit Café Menu (one with a prompt for theme, one without)
- Lit Café Guided Note Placemat
- Lit Café Plate Graphic (can be used in place of real paper plates)
- Summarization Presentation (in .pdf format)
Highlights
Description
**CCSS aligned**
Welcome to the Lit Café where words are the food!
Introduce or practice the idea of objective summaries with this fun, easy, ready-to-go, mini-lesson. Invite your students to the Lit Café. Students read very short, engaging stories and summarize them based on the "somebody, wanted, but, so, then" method. Students take notes on a guided-note placemat, read stories from a menu, and write summaries on a plate.
Included in this resource:
- Detailed lesson plan
- Lit Café Menu (one with a prompt for theme, one without)
- Lit Café Guided Note Placemat
- Lit Café Plate Graphic (can be used in place of real paper plates)
- Summarization Presentation (in .pdf format)

