Do your students struggle with summarizing? Maybe they understand what it means to summarize, but are having trouble writing a summary on their own?

This Summarizing SWBST PowerPoint is great to use as a guided lesson to introduce or review the skill of summarizing because it teaches students a specific step-by-step strategy to master the skill. Use this PowerPoint to both introduce and practice the Somebody Wanted But So Then Strategy. Copy the printables that accompany the lesson so students can fully engage in the lesson!

Here's what's included...

• A 24 slide PowerPoint to introduce and practice the SWBST strategy.
• 1 fiction passage (printable version included) to practice the strategy included throughout the PowerPoint
• Opportunities to practice each question of the strategy - After each question (Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then) of the SWBST strategy, the focus will be on finding the evidence to answer each question by re-reading and highlighting evidence with the corresponding colors in the PowerPoint. (Highlighter colors are pink, blue, orange, yellow, green if you want to provide them ahead of time to students) Answer keys provided for highlighting.
• Opportunities to practice writing a complete summary - Once the evidence is highlighted, it will be added to the SWBST chart. (printable version provided. Finally, students are guided to put all the evidence they have highlighted together in a paragraph frame (printable version provided) to write a summary. Answer Keys are provided for the final summary.

The goal of this product is to guide students step-by-step through the SWBST Strategy so that they can apply it to their daily reading and improve their summarizing skills. The breakdown of the strategy provided gives student confidence to try the strategy independently. After a little bit of practice, students can use this skill with automaticity.

Customer Review:

Jessica M. (5 stars) - I used this powerpoint during my review of summaries and the strategies that they can use to write an efficient summary for the texts they are reading throughout the year! They loved it and so did I!

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