Becoming a Superb Summarizer: Detecting the Main Idea and Recalling Key Details

In this class, students will read an informational text (Cricket Media's Around the World in 1890) about events in the 1890s regarding the construction of the Eiffel Tower. As a bonus, we will also take a virtual field trip to the Eiffel Tower and learn some fun facts about it before reading our story. 
Learners will discover the main idea of the text and describe it using key details. 
We will discuss effective strategies for summarizing texts and keys to looking for key details. Students will learn to ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in the text. Students will ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of the text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Students will determine the main idea of the text and be able to recount the key details. They will use this information to explain how they support the main idea.
I love allowing students to engage and connect as learners in every way possible. We will be utilizing Nearpod to further engage and collaborate as we discuss what it looks like to become Super Summarizers!