The document discusses providing concise summaries of expository and narrative writing in 3 sentences or less. It recommends that students identify the main idea and supporting details from text features like subheadings. For expository writing, students should state the main idea and give a detail from each subheading. For narrative writing, students should state the title, main idea, setting, beginning, middle, end, and author's purpose. The best summaries are brief while still capturing the essential information.

1. RRI Framework
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Read the text form _____ to _____
What do I want to clarify? Where is this sentence?
Questions to Ask
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Summary

2. Summarization Frame-Expository Writing
To summarize expository writing efficiently and effectively, students must consider the
text’s global main idea and then support it with details. The best way to support this sort
of main idea statement is through the use of text features, like subheadings. If there are
subheadings, students may provide support for the text’s main idea by giving the
subsections general gist or main idea. An appropriate way to end a summary is for the
reader to reflect on the author’s purpose for the article.
The article title, is mostly about main
idea. (Detail 1 from 1st Subheading) -
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(Detail 1 from 2nd Subheading) -
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(Detail 1 from 3rd Subheading) -
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3. The author most likely wrote this
article to (author’s purpose).

4. Summarization Frame-Narrative Writing
It is useful for students to pull these parts out of the text before writing the summary by
using an appropriate graphic organizer. Remind children that brevity is the key with all
summaries.
The story, (title) is mostly about (main
idea). The story starts out when (main
character/s) are in/at (setting). The story
begins when (tell what takes place at the
beginning of the story). Next, (tell what
takes place at the middle of the story).
Finally, (tell what takes place at the end
of the story). The author most likely
wrote this story (author’s purpose).