Another Summarizing Trick

We've been working very hard on finding the main idea and writing summaries this quarter. This week we worked on writing short summary statements for a couple of classic seasonal stories. We figure out the "somebody", or characters. Next, we stated what the character "wanted" in the story. Then we found the "But", or the problem and then finally we wrote the "So" or solution to the problem. Every fiction story has a problem and a solution and good readers are able to state both after reading.