Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Summary

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Tell students that now that they have completed several lessons about summarizing, they are going to show you that they really know how to summarize. They will break into groups and fill in one part of a story map, about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Then each group will present their answer to summarize Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs as a class. Finally, you are going to give them "book" pages on which they will write and draw about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. They will use their books to summarize the story for their family members. Remind them that their summaries should always be shorter than the real book because a summary only includes the most important information about a story. It should be "short and sweet."

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Setting: house; Chewandswallow
First Main Event: It rained food three times a day in Chewandswallow. The people ate whatever weather was served, and they didn't have to worry about going food shopping. People just carried their utensils with them.
Second Main Event: The weather took a turn for the worse. Bad food kept falling, and then food that was too big. People got sick trying to eat too much, and they had to close school. People decided to leave Chewandswallow.
Third Main Event: The townspeople made a boat out of stale bread and sailed to a new town. They had to get used to shopping for food at the supermarket.
Solution: The people of Chewandswallow survived in a new town, and Grandpa's story put the children to sleep!
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Collect the chart paper from each group and beginning with your title page, have children tell you where to tape all of the pieces of chart paper in the same order as the story map across the front board. Tell students that they are going to use their words or pictures to help them summarize Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Begin the summary by stating the name of the story and the name of the author and illustrator. Then, call on the "character" group to tell who the main characters are, the "setting" group to tell about the setting, and so on. Guide groups to summarize their part of the story in one or two sentences including only the most important points. Tell groups to listen to one another so that they can hear Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs being

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