Key Points: Nick found a frindle.; Nick gets in trouble if he says frindle.; Nick's teachers' eyes get gray when she is mad.
Summary: Nick gets in trouble because he's not allowed to say frindle and if any other kids say frindle they have to stay after school.

Key Points: Benny got checked into the boards; the mice won the hockey game; the big M left the forum.
Summary: When the rink rats were cheating, the other mice were spying on them. Then they found out big Boris was going to stick gum on his stick.

On the other hand, some students wrote well developed summaries from their key points:

Key Points: Zack; Spencer; Vernon; chef
Summary: Zack looked like a clown and he didn't like it. Spencer puts makeup on Zack. Zack took his clothes off to go taste Vernon's ice-cream. Zack found out that Vernon was cheating because his chef made the ice-cream.

Key Points: friends, ice-cream; experiment; disappearing ink
Summary: Zack and Spencer are the two main characters and best friends. They invent a new type of ice-cream. Spencer is smart and he likes to do experiments. Zack drank disappearing ink by mistake.

Key Points: run away; dog bite; crying; farmhouse
Summary: Curtis was going to run away because his mom was going to take Sammy back to the shelter. Sammy bit Curtis on the hand and he had to get six stitches. Curtis was crying because he loved Sammy and he was going to miss him. They take Sammy to live in the farmhouse.

Key Points: door; drafty room; the box; the book
Summary: Jack and Annie pushed the door slowly. Jack stepped into a cold, drafty room. There was a long gold box. Annie found the book of the dead.

The Artful Artist role revealed that students made meaning through visualization. Their drawings represented characters, scenes, settings, problems, etc. based on their reading.