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 There are
four parts to the summary topic sentence. First, they state the type of
writing (article, book, web page, etc.) and the title of the piece of
writing they are summarizing. In the example we were using for this
anchor chart, we were reading a short article out of a kid's science
newspaper.
For the State It portion, we named the type of writing (an article) and
the name of the article (The Story Behind the Switch).

For the Assign portion of the SAAC statement, you state the author's
name. Unfortunately, the author was not given for this particular
article, so we used the name of the publication (Colorado Reader)
instead. Normally, it would say "the author, Lindsey Peak" or
whatever the author's name is.

Action is easy because you teach them a few verbs and they stick with
them. This is an action to describe what the author is doing in their
writing. We use the verbs tells, explains, and describes most of the
time.

Finally, they complete the SAAC statement with their topic (T) from
their Summary Plan (see above).

I know it may look tedious at first glance, but my students consistently

generate stellar summaries thanks to this method. Once they "get" all
the parts of the SAAC statement, it is easy breezy to write awesome
topic sentences and then they fill in the rest with their star ideas and
details!

Here is the sample summary I wrote in my teacher notebook (the

students copied it into their writing notebooks for reference) after we
did the anchor chart together. Sometimes, when we are writing a
shorter summary, they skip the details (dashes) part of the plan and
only do the star ideas (on the left side).