Literature: Key Ideas and Details

With this resource that includes a graphic organizer, children follow a step-by-step set of instructions that leads them to write an objective summary of a text. The summary does not include any opinions or judgments.

Writing an Objective Summary

This graphic organizer helps students write down evidence they find in a text, make a prediction based on that evidence, write down any new evidence they find, and evaluate the prediction they made. Making predictions is a way for students to better comprehend a given text.

Making and Evaluating Predictions

This anchor chart (Vanderbilt University Teaching Center, 2016) illustrates and describes the levels of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (Anderson & Kratwohl, 2010). Both students and teachers can use this resource.

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

Students may use this anchor chart to formulate questions about important elements of literary texts.

Important Elements of Literary Texts

This anchor chart provides examples of students’ responses when asked to consider how they will use question generation inside and outside of the classroom.

Why is it Important to Ask Good Questions?