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By hopealope

They have 15-20 minutes for morning work and then they have 25 minutes a day at library center to finish what they need to. for genre I only require fiction or nonfiction they get more indepth in third grade. I teach the
harcourt reading series so each time I taught a new skill like characters, setting, and so on we added it to our tag. So by now they are doing a summary of what they read. Most of the kids can do 1 a day even my lower readers that are reading things like Dr. Seuss and stuff, my higher readers that are reading chapter books give me a summary of what they read that day, they list the

chapter title or the page numbers under the same section. Sometimes I tell them that they have to use the story from their harcourt book or their sounds of sunshine book as their tag. I like to see a minimum of 3 TAG's a week so that they can get their Texas Roadhouse certificate. They really do sit and read since it is linked to computer and an incentive program. Many of my students can do their summary in about 3 sentences including characters, setting, and plot. It gives them good writing practice also.