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By Rachel Friedrich at Picture Book Lessons

http://picturebooklessons.blogspot.com/

Summarizing

Hokey Pokey

Poster and

Graphic Organizers

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How to Use These Lessons

Summarizing is an integral strategy in demonstrating reading

comprehension at every grade level. In this packet you will find

a song to help students remember how to summarize and several

graphic organizers to utilize different summarization strategies.

This packet includes:

• A Summarizing Hokey Pokey Song Poster

• BME Graphic Organizer

• SWBST Graphic Organizer

• Story Map Graphic Organizer

• Book Advertisement Graphic Organizer

• 5 W’s Graphic Organizer

Credits

Clip art by Scrappin Doodles

http://www.scrappindoodles.com/

Frames by the 3AM Teacher

http://the3amteacher.blogspot.com/

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Summarizing

Hokey Pokey

(sung to the tune of the Hokey Pokey)

You put the big ideas in.

You take the extras out.

You put the essentials in,

And you cross the repeats out.

You do some summarizing,

And write the paragraph now.

That’s what it’s all about!

Summarizing!

© 2012 Rachel Friedrich at Picture Book Lessons http://picturebooklessons.blogspot.com/