5/11/21

5/11/21

Multiple Choice

Floods can cause tremendous damage.  They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind.  It can take months to clean up after a flood.
 What is the main idea?

• Floods can cause a lot of damage.
• Floods cause mudslides.
• Floods damage houses and roads. 

Agenda

• Reminders (grades, practice, transitional ceremony, etc.)

• Vocabulary practice (Flocabulary words for 4th grade)

• Summary (Review, then small groups)

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Follow this format when writing a summary!

• In the beginning... (think exposition)

• Next... (rising action)

• Then... (climax)

• After that... (falling action)

• In the end... (resolution)

Summary

What is a Summary?

What is a summary?

• Imagine you were telling someone about a movie you just watched

• A summary would include JUST the IMPORTANT parts of the book or movie you are sharing about!

Multiple Select

A summary is when I... (choose 2)

• Tell my friend about a movie I just watched

• Describe a book to my friend

• Tell every single thing in detail that happened in the book or movie

What is a WRITTEN summary?

• It should be in COMPLETE sentences

• Include key events from the story

• The events should go in ORDER

• Should be 5-7 sentences

Multiple Choice

The order of events don't matter when I'm writing a summary.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A written summary is shorter than the text, usually 5-7 sentences.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A Written summary should be in complete sentences.

• True

• False

What is a Summary NOT?

• Retelling the whole story from start to finish

• The minor details that aren't important

• Longer than the story

Multiple Choice

A summary is not every single thing that happened in the book.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A Written summary should include minor details from the book.

• True

• False

Quick practice before breakout!

Multiple Choice

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.
The Summary of this passage is:

• There are a lot of cows in Texas.
• There are many different, varied parts of Texas.
•  Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.
•  There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

Multiple Choice

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.
The Summary of this passage is:

• Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.
•  Jill loves Mexican food.
• The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.
•  Jill will choose a place by flipping a coin.

Groups

• Group 1 (independent) - Go to learningfarm and practice Summary with Game Mode

• Group 2 (teacher) - stay with me and we are going to do more practice together

• Note: Stay on this Quizizz so you can do your exit ticket at the end of class!

Multiple Choice

In the passage below, what can you infer about Randolph using clues from the setting?

One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of the morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.

• Randolph is a mean person.

• Randolph has an older sister.

• Randolph is a prince or king.

• The setting doesn't give me any clues about Randolph.