Improve Reading Comprehension and Writing Skills
Summary Street is an innovative Web-based reading comprehension and writing instruction tool. With Summary Street, students develop a skill that good readers naturally possess - the ability to summarize what they read. They read texts, write summaries of those texts using their own words and receive instant feedback.
Summary Street measures students’ writing by comparing it with the actual text and provides feedback on how well they have captured the main idea of the reading passages in their summaries. Plus, Summary Street offers students feedback on spelling, redundancy and relevancy.
Summary Street includes all of the lessons from the Scott Foresman Science textbooks for Grades 4, 5, and 6, providing an excellent companion to this popular Science curriculum.
Summary Street Offers Students:
- A motivating environment for practicing and improving their summary writing skills
- Immediate, easy-to-understand feedback and suggestions on how to improve their summaries
- Visually appealing reports for staying on track with assignments and monitoring their own progress
Summary Street Offers Teachers:
- Flexibility to adjust scoring to meet the learning goals of a class
- Highly informative and graphic reports for viewing student progress individually and as a class
- Access to complete student writing portfolios to evaluate student work and diagnose learning needs