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Make a list of 10 movies that you have seen, like and remember. From your list, choose three that you remember most clearly. Summarize what happens in the movie in three sentences. You must include all the important things that happened, but you must keep your summary to three sentences.
 * Three-Sentence Summary**

Each person should share one summary without giving the title. Let other members of the class guess what the movie is.

Explain that anything can be summarized in three sentences: movies, novels, articles, etc.

Hand out a short reading. (It works really well if it is at a reading level at the top of or slightly above the average reading level of the class.) Assign each student (or a pair of students) one paragraph.
 * Summary & Reading**

Ask students to write a one sentence summary of each paragraph, and write a one sentence connection for each. They can make text to text, text to world, or text to text connection.

When students are finished, ask to share the paragraph summaries, then in small groups, ask students to write a three sentence summary of the reading.

Check this out! -Jessica