Summarize Fiction PowerPoint with Practice Passages: Somebody Wanted But So Then

Are you searching for a step-by-step summarizing PowerPoint that can be used to teach your students how to write a strong fiction summary in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 53-slide PowerPoint will guide your students through the process of writing a summary using the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" summarizing strategy. It includes FIVE practice opportunities, including two classic stories (Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Emperor's New Clothes) as well as three original short stories.

This summarizing PowerPoint follows a very structured sequence that begins with highly scaffolded activities and progresses until students are writing their own summaries. To start, the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" framework is explained. Students are given completed summaries, and they must label each part of the summary.

Next, students are presented with anchor questions that they can use to help them write their summaries. Anchor questions include:

✅ Who is the main character (the somebody)?

✅ What did the character want?

✅ But what conflict made this difficult?

✅ So how did the character deal with the conflict?

✅ Then how did the story end?

After completing the first practice summary, transition words are discussed. In the final section, students learn what they can do when the SWBST strategy doesn't work perfectly.

PowerPoints filled with visuals are ideal for teaching new content to students because PowerPoints tend to be highly engaging and concepts can be easily broken down into understandable chunks of information. But let's face it... they are so time-consuming to create! Fortunately, now you have an option of using one that is already complete, kid-tested, and ready to go for you!

HERE'S THE SEQUENCE OF TOPICS COVERED IN THIS POWERPOINT:

Slides 1-4: Introduction to the SWBST strategy

Slides 5-15: Identifying parts of a SWBST summary

Slides 16-22: Instruction slides using Three Billy Goats Gruff

Slides 23-28: Practice passage #1

Slides 29-33: Using transition words in your summary

Slides 34-38: Practice passage #2

Slides 39-46: Discussion of how to proceed when the SWBST strategy "falls short" (The Emperor's New Clothes)

Slides 47-53: Practice passage #3

This file also includes a PowerPoint companion handout. Students will remain especially engaged when they write on their own handout as you advance through the PowerPoint. The companion handout is available in both printable format or digital format.

Be sure to check out the PREVIEW!

Here's what teachers like you have to say about this PowerPoint:

⭐️ The Teacher's Hand said, "I always love the details on the slides and the powerpoint companion... Summarizing is such a difficult skill for my students, but this slideshow helped me break it down clearly for them."

⭐️ Joy E. said, "I am thrilled with the level of work my students produced after working on this PowerPoint all week. It walks them through step by step. It is amazing!"

⭐️ Jennifer L. said, "I stumbled upon this resource the morning I was going to start teaching summarizing. It was so easy to just download it and start teaching. It was on-level and easy for my students to understand and follow. Will definitely use this resource year after year."

⭐️ Grade 3 with Crabtree said, "This is exactly what I needed!! My students were struggling to pull out and identify the important parts of a summary. This lesson brought it home! We were all engaged and the lesson allowed for discussion and various opportunities to practice together and on our own!"

Feel free to check out my related resources:

Summarizing Fiction Tri-Folds

Readers' Theater and Summarizing Activity

Six Practice Passages

Please note: You DO have my permission to convert this PowerPoint to Google Slides, and to share it with your students via Google Classroom. (A Google link is not provided, but you may upload the PowerPoint to Google yourself, if you wish.)

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