Surfside Academy Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 How do you teach a reluctant writer to do narrative summaries on longer passages of reading, 2-3 pages for example? We use WWE and he does well with the narrations...as long as I ask him key questions. He is still having a hard time coming up with narrations on his own. In addition to WWE, I've started having him write summaries from shorter passages using IEW's 3 key word outline. This has helped him tremendously and he does this fairly easily. It just won't work for longer passages. I know that SWB recommends a one sentence/paragraph outline in her middle grader writing seminar so I'm wondering if I should just have him start doing that now...:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland_Mom Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 You could give him a list of key questions he needs to ask himself when he's doing a narrative summary of a longer passge. Questions that he needs to be able to answer include: Who is the passage about? Where & when does it take place? What was the point of the passage -or- what was the main problem? How did the person/character respond? How did the passage end? (Who, what, when, where, why, how type questions) This should help him cover the main points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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