Summarizing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts by Using Key Ideas and Details

Objectives

This unit builds on students’ prior knowledge of fiction and nonfiction to focus on summarizing fiction, literary nonfiction, and informational nonfiction. Students will:

identify text structure in fiction and literary nonfiction text.
summarize fiction and literary nonfiction text.
identify text structure in informational nonfiction text.
summarize informational nonfiction text.

Essential Questions

How do readers’ know what to believe in what they read, hear, and view?

How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?

How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?

What is this text really about?

How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary texts?
What is this text really about?
How do readers know what to believe in what they read, hear, and view?

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Formative Assessment

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Short-Answer Items:

Explain how to summarize fiction and literary nonfiction texts and how to summarize informational nonfiction texts. Give specific information to support your answer.

Short-Answer Key and Scoring Rubric:

Different methods are used to summarize fiction and literary nonfiction texts compared to informational nonfiction texts because they are organized differently. Fiction and literary nonfiction texts can be summarized based on a story map because there are always a character, setting, problem, and solution. Informational nonfiction texts can be summarized based on a repeated words organizer, which identifies essential facts. To summarize informational nonfiction texts, the reader has to distinguish between essential and nonessential facts (key ideas and details).

Points	Description
3	Student explains how fiction and literary nonfiction are organized differently from informational nonfiction and tells how to summarize by using a story map for literary texts or a graphic organizer with main idea and key details for nonfiction texts.
2	Student explains how literary and informational texts are organized differently, but tells how to summarize only one kind of text.
1	Student explains how literary or informational texts are organized OR Student states how to use a story map or a graphic organizer.
0	Student is unable to differentiate how texts are organized or how to summarize texts.

Performance Assessment:

Have students choose one of the following activities:

Read a sample of fiction or literary nonfiction and a sample of informational nonfiction. Create a T-chart and label the left column “Literary” and the right column “Informational.” List in the T-chart the organization of each type of text. (Fiction and literary nonfiction: character, setting, problem, solution. Informational nonfiction: main ideas, details)
Choose a book from one of these types of texts: fiction, literary nonfiction, or informational nonfiction. Draw a poster advertising your choice. The poster should contain only the title of the book and the author’s name. You can use a book you have read in this unit or any other book you have read. Through the illustration, identify the elements of fiction or literary nonfiction (character, setting, problem, and solution) or the elements of informational nonfiction (main idea and details).
Read two picture books—one that is fiction and one that is literary nonfiction. Create a board game that is based on the literary elements of the two books. Have the squares on the game board or question cards incorporate story elements from both books (character, setting, problem, solution). Demonstrate the game to the class, or have a group of classmates play the game and give their feedback.

Performance Assessment Scoring Rubric:

Points	Description
3	Student completes one of the performance tasks and accurately includes all the requirements: setting, character, problem, and solution (also main idea and details, depending on the task chosen).
2	Student completes one of the performance tasks and accurately includes at least two of the requirements.
1	Student completes one of the performance tasks and accurately includes at least one of the requirements.
0	Student demonstrates a lack of understanding of the task or makes no attempt to complete one of the performance tasks.

Final 05/03/2013

Summarizing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts by Using Key Ideas and Details

Unit Plan