1.

Identify the instructional goals/student objectives

a. Students will be able to summarize a story using a formula of
Somebody...WantedBut.SoThen.
2. Identify what materials you will need
a. Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai
b. Sticky notes
c. Pencils
3. Provide a brief description of the lesson
a. Students will work together to fill in the gaps of a summary outline for the chapter book
Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai. As a class, the students will answer the questions: Who
is the main character? What does the main character want? What gets in his or her way?
How does it end? After answering these questions about the story, the students will have
completed a summary of the text and an understanding of how to create summaries of
other texts.
4. Provide an instructional plan
a. After finishing the chapter book Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai, discuss with students
how they could summarize a chapter book. Point out that this may seem much harder
than summarizing a shorter picture book, but to focus on the big points of the story that
can wrap up the main ideas.
b. Ask the students, Who is the main character?
c. Write on the board/anchor chart the word somebody. Next to somebody write this
question and then the students answers next to it.
d. Then ask What does the main character want?
e. Allow students time to discuss with a partner.
f. Write the word wanted and then this question next to it. Write down the students
answers to this question as well.
g. Then ask What gets in his or her way?
h. Write the word but and guide students to think about the problems and obstacles the
main character faces. Allow students time to discuss with a partner and then write
answers down on the board/anchor chart.
i. Ask students What does the main character do in response to these problems?
j. Write down the word so and this question on the board/anchor chart. Allow students
time to discuss with a partner then write down their answers.
k. Ask students How does the story end? Remind them to connect it back to the problem
of the story or what the character wants.
l. Write this question on the board/anchor chart and allow students time to discuss with a
partner. Write the students answers down.
m. Send the students off to try to summarize the book they finished last on a sticky note.
n. Have the students place their sticky notes on the anchor chart/board where the example
one is, so peers can see the summaries of other stories they may be interested in and the
teacher can check for understanding of summarizing.
5. Identify the standards addressed
a. RL. 4.2: Key Ideas and Details; Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from
details in the text; summarize the text.
6. Identify student assessment
 a. Students will use sticky notes to provide a summary of the book they finished last or the
one they are almost done reading at the time. They will fill in answers for Somebody,
wanted, but, so, then and the teacher can check for understanding of creating a summary
using details from the story.
7. Provide possible extensions
a. An extension of this lesson would be to have students create a comic strip with the main
points of the book. This way students can still provide a summary of the book without
necessarily having to write it.
b. Students that have read the same book can work together to create a small play to act out
the summary of the book utilizing the main points of the text.