Objective

The students will answer story-related questions to help them summarize the story.

Facilitation Tips

This activity is best done in pairs or in small groups. Students read the story (using the tracking function) or have the pages read by the computer (audio feature). If necessary reword the question and encourage discussion amongst the students.

Summarizing prompts are not available for all stories, but teachers can develop their own questions for ABRA and READS stories.

Levels

Story related questions are asked after certain pages in the story. Students must identify key elements in the story and monitor their thinking so they can summarize the story in a meaningful way.

Note

Please note that the LTK+ team has discovered that the segmented version of words that should have a short O, instead use a long O. For example, the word dog is segmented as /d/ /oʊ/ /g/ instead of the proper /dɒg/. We will work to correct this error.